Laurence Hawley Watres

Laurence Hawley Watres ( born July 18, 1882 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, † February 6, 1964 in Puerto Rico ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1931 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Laurence Watres attended the common schools and the Hill School in Pottstown. In 1904, he graduated from Princeton University. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1907 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Scranton in this profession. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army, where he rose to become major. For his military services he was awarded among others with the Purple Heart. After the war he served as a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard of Pennsylvania, in which he was involved in the restructuring of an infantry regiment. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1922 Watres in the eleventh electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Clarence Dennis Coughlin on March 4, 1923. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 4, 1931 four legislative sessions. The time from the fall of 1929 was marked by the events of the Great Depression.

In 1930 Watres renounced another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced until 1951, as a lawyer in Scranton. Then he moved to East Orange, New Jersey. He died during a holiday on 6 February 1964 in Puerto Rico.