John D. Fredericks

John Donnan Fredericks ( born September 10, 1869 in Burgettstown, Washington County, Pennsylvania, † August 26 1945 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1927 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Fredericks attended the public schools of his home and then the Washington and Jefferson College in Washington ( Pennsylvania). After a subsequent law degree in 1896 and its recent approval as a lawyer in Los Angeles, he began to work in this profession. During the Spanish- American War of 1898, he was adjutant in an infantry unit from California. From 1903 to 1915 Fredericks served as district attorney in Los Angeles County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1915, he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of California.

After the death of Mr Henry Z. Osborne Fredericks was at the due election for the seat tenth of California as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 1 May 1923. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1927 at the Congress. 1926 renounced Fredericks on another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in Los Angeles, where he died on 26 August 1945.