Fritz G. Lanham

Frederick Garland "Fritz" Lanham ( born January 3, 1880 in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas, † July 31, 1965 in Austin, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1947 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Fritz Lanham was the son of Governor Samuel WT Lanham (1846-1908), who also sat for Texas in Congress. He attended the public schools in Washington DC and thereafter until 1897, the Weatherford College. He then continued his education until 1898 continued at Vanderbilt University and then to 1900 at the University of Texas at Austin. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Texas and his 1909 was admitted to the bar he began in Weatherford to work in this profession. In 1917 he moved to Fort Worth. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

Following the resignation of Mr James Clifton Wilson Lanham was elected as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the twelfth seat of Texas, where he took up his new mandate on April 19, 1919. After 13 Re-elections he could remain until January 3, 1947 in Congress. Since 1931 he was Chairman of the Committee for the administration of public property. As of 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Congress since 1941 and also the work of the Congress was marked by the events of the Second World War and its consequences.

1946 Lanham renounced to another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked until 1961 as a government consultant in Washington. He then moved to Austin, where he died on 31 July 1965.