James L. Whitley

James Lucius Whitley ( born May 24, 1872 in Rochester, New York, † May 17, 1959 ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1935 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Whitley attended the common schools and the Rochester Free Academy. After a subsequent law degree from Union University in Albany and his 1899 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Rochester in this profession. In the meantime, he took part in a volunteer unit to the Spanish-American War of 1898 as a sergeant. In the years 1900 and 1901, Whitley was among the advisers of the city of Rochester; 1902 to 1904, he served as a senior auditor of the local service Commission. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party a political career a From 1905 to 1910 he was a deputy in the New York State Assembly, from 1918 to 1928 he was in the state Senate. For 20 years he took part in the regional party days of the Republicans in New York State as a delegate.

In the congressional elections of 1928, Whitley was on the 38th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Meyer Jacob Stein on March 4, 1929. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1935 three legislative periods. This period was marked by the events of the world economic crisis since the fall of 1929. Since 1933, the first of the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted, which Whitley's party faced a rather negative. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

In 1934, James Whitley was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 17 May 1959 in Rochester, where he was also buried.