Milton H. West

Milton Horace West ( * June 30, 1888 in Gonzales, Texas, † October 28, 1948 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1948 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Milton West attended the common schools and then the West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio. In the years 1911 and 1912 he served with the Texas Rangers. After a subsequent law degree in 1915 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Floresville to work in this profession. In 1917 he moved his residence and his law firm to Brownsville. Between 1922 and 1925 he served as a prosecutor in the 28th Judicial District of the State of Texas. From 1927 to 1930 he was deputy district attorney. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1930 and 1933 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Texas.

After the resignation of Rep. John Nance Garner, who became its vice-president under the new U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, West won the overdue election for the 15 seats of Texas and became his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he on April 22, 1933 took up his new mandate. After seven elections he could remain until his death on 28 October 1948 for the Congress. During his time in Congress, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked.

From 1937 to 1939 Milton West was chairman of the first Election Committee. In 1948 he gave up another candidacy. But he died before the expiration of his last term, which only ended on January 3, 1949.