Oliver H. Cross

Oliver Harlan Cross ( born July 13, 1868 in Eutaw, Alabama, † April 24, 1960 in Waco, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1937 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Oliver Cross attended the common schools and then studied until 1891 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In the years 1891 and 1892 he was a teacher in Union Springs. After a subsequent law degree in 1893 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession in Deming later in New Mexico. He then moved to Texas, where he practiced in the years 1895 and 1896 in McGregor, and thereafter at Waco as a lawyer. Between 1898 and 1902 he was deputy district attorney in McLennan County; 1902 to 1906, he served there as an actual district attorney. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1900 he was a deputy in the Texas House of Representatives. 1917 Cross ended his legal career. Instead, he worked from then on in agriculture.

In the congressional elections of 1928 Cross in the eleventh electoral district of Texas was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Tom Connally on March 4, 1929. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1937 four legislative sessions. Since 1933, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1936 he opted not to run again.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Oliver Cross again worked in agriculture. He was also active in the real estate market. He died on April 24, 1960 in Waco.