Joseph J. Mansfield

Joseph Jefferson Mansfield ( born February 9, 1861 in Wayne, Wayne County, Virginia; † July 12, 1947 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1947 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in what is now West Virginia Joseph Mansfield attended the public schools of his home. In 1881 he moved to Alleyton, Texas, where he worked on a farm and as a gardener. Later he was a cargo and luggage carrier at the Southern Pacific Railroad. After a subsequent law degree in 1886 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Eagle Lake to work in this profession. In this city he also founded the first daily newspaper. At that time he also set up two companies of the National Guard of Texas. Within the National Guard, he brought it to the captain.

In 1888 he was a prosecutor in Eagle Lake; In 1889 he was mayor there. From 1892 to 1896 Mansfield acted as prosecutor in Colorado County, before he was school board from 1896 to 1910 in the same district. At the same time, he worked 1896-1916 as District Judge. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1916, Mansfield was the ninth election district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Farmer Burgess on March 4, 1917. After 15 Re-elections he could remain until his death on July 12, 1947 in Congress. From 1931 to 1947 he was chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. In his time as a congressman fell both the First and the Second World War. In the 1930s, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In addition, ratified in his time as a congressman of the 18th, the 19th, the 20th and the 21st Amendment.