Eugene Worley

Francis Eugene Worley ( born October 10, 1908 in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, † December 17, 1974 in Naples, Florida) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1941 and 1950 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives; then he became a federal judge.

Career

In 1922, Eugene Worley moved to Shamrock, Texas, where he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1928 at the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Texas at Austin and his 1935 was admitted to the bar he began in Shamrock to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1935 and 1940 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1940, Worley was in the 18th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Marvin Jones on January 3, 1941. After four elections he could remain until his resignation on April 3, 1950 in Congress. This time was determined by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Between December 1941 and August 1942 Worley took during his time as a congressman active as an officer in the U.S. Navy in the war part. From 1943 to 1945 he was chairman of an election committee.

Worley's resignation was after his appointment as federal judge on Customs and Patent Court, where he became the successor of Charles Sherrod Hatfield. In 1959 he became chairman of that court. He died on 17 December 1974 in Naples.