Herbert B. Warburton

Herbert Birchby Warburton ( born September 21, 1916 in Wilmington, Delaware; † 30 July 1983 in Lewes, Delaware ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1955 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Herbert Warburton attended the public schools in Wilmington and Reading ( Pennsylvania). Then he studied until June 1938 at the University of Delaware in Newark. This was followed up in 1941 a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle (Pennsylvania). During the Second World War Warburton officer was in the U.S. Army. Until his retirement from military service in December 1945, he had reached the rank of Major.

In 1942 he was admitted to the bar because of his military service in absentia. As of January 1946, he began this career in Wilmington exercise. Between 1949 and 1952 he was a trial lawyer of this city. Politically, Warburton member of the Republican Party. In 1952, he was charged with 52% of the vote to Democrat Joseph P. Scannell in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he broke on January 3, 1953, Cale Boggs. But since he resigned in 1954 to run again, he could spend only one term in Congress until January 3, 1955.

At the same congressional elections in 1954 Warburton ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. He was defeated by 43 % to 57 % of the votes the Democrats J. Allen Frear. From 1955 to 1957 Warburton worked for the Federal Ministry of Labour and 1957-1961 he was an advisor to the Ministry post. Afterwards he worked until 1964 administratively for his party in a sub-committee of the Congress ( House Government Operations Subcommittee ). Later, he was CEO of American orthotic and prosthetic Association.