James Floyd Breeding

James Floyd Breeding (* September 28, 1901 in Robinson, Brown County, Kansas; † 17 October 1977 in Dodge City, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1957 and 1963 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Breeding attended primary school in Moonlight in Dickinson County. After he graduated from the Berryton High School in Shawnee County. In the years 1921 and 1922 Breeding studied at Kansas State College in Manhattan. In 1928 he moved to Rolla in Morton County, where until 1956 worked as a farmer and rancher.

Breeding was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1947 and 1949 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kansas. In 1949, he headed the Democratic Group, 1950, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Kansas. 1951 Breeding president of the Western Kansas Development Association. In the years 1960 and 1964 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant, on which John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated as the presidential candidate of the party.

1956 Breeding was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 1957, succeeding Clifford R. Hope. After he was confirmed in each case in the years 1958 and 1960, he was able to complete in 1963 three legislative sessions in Congress until January 3. In the elections of 1962 he was defeated by Republican Joe Skubitz. After the end of his time in Congress Breeding was appointed the Ministry of Agriculture to the Department Head. He held this post from 1963 to 1966. In 1966 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. James Breeding died in October 1977 in Dodge City and was buried in Rolla.