E. H. Hedrick

Erland Harold Hedrick ( born August 9, 1894 in Barn, Mercer County, West Virginia, † September 20, 1954 in Beckley, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1945 and 1953 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Erland Harold Hedrick attended the public schools of his home including the Beckley Institute. Then he studied until 1917 at the University of Maryland in Baltimore medicine. During World War II he was a lieutenant in the medical service of the U.S. Army. After the war he was 1919-1944 as a doctor in Beckley worked. During the same period he was also a medical advisor to the Veterans Administration. Between 1927 and 1932, Hedrick was additionally health officer in his district. In the years 1943 and 1944 he headed the Pinecrest Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Beckley.

Politically Hedrick was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1944 he was a candidate in the sixth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joe L. Smith on January 3, 1945. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1953 four legislative sessions. In this time, the end of World War II fell. At that time the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was discussed and adopted, which limited the number of terms of office of the President to two.

In 1952 Hedrick gave up another run for Congress. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections in West Virginia. He then worked again in his profession. E. H. Hedrick died in September 1954 in Beckley.