John C. Box

John Calvin Box ( born March 28, 1871 Crockett, Houston County, Texas, † May 17, 1941 in Jacksonville, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1931 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Box attended the common schools and the Alexander Collegiate Institute, Lon Morris College today in Kilgore. After a subsequent law degree in 1893 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Lufkin to work in this profession. In 1897 he moved his residence and his law firm to Jacksonville. He also worked as a minister of the Methodist Church. Between 1898 and 1901 acted box as District Judge in Cherokee County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1902-1905 he was mayor of Jacksonville; 1908 to 1910 he was a member of the State Board of his party. Between 1913 and 1918 he was Chairman of the Education Committee.

In the congressional elections of 1918 box in the second electoral district of Texas was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took over from Martin This Sr. on March 4, 1919. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1931 six legislative periods. During this time, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

In 1930, John Box was not nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in Jacksonville, where he died on 17 May 1941.