L. Irving Handy

Levin Irving Handy ( born December 24, 1861 in Berlin, Maryland, † February 3, 1922 in Wilmington, Delaware ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Irving Handy was the nephew of William Breckinridge, who was sitting 1885-1894 for the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives. He attended the public schools in the states of Maryland and New York. After leaving school, he taught himself as a teacher in Somerset County, Maryland. In 1881 he was appointed Head of the High School in Smyrna (Delaware). Between 1887 and 1890 phone was in Kent County School Board. Then he was at the Old Newark Academy in Newark until 1892 teachers.

As a member of the Democratic Party was phone 1892-1896 whose chairman in Delaware. In the years 1900, 1904 and 1908 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. Between 1894 and 1895 authored mobile editorial in the newspaper " Wilmington Every Evening". In the congressional elections of 1894 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1896 he was elected as a delegate to Congress, where he became the successor of the Republican Jonathan S. Willis on March 4, 1897. Since he lost to John H. Hoffecker in the elections of 1898, Irving was able to complete cell phones to March 3, 1899, only one term in Congress.

After a law degree now made ​​mobile phone was approved in 1899 as an attorney. In 1904, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Attorney General of Delaware; 1908 failed an intended return to Congress. This time he lost to William H. Heald. Otherwise, Irving worked phone these years as a lawyer in Wilmington, where he died in 1922.

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