Oscar Lovette

Oscar Byrd Lovette ( born December 20 1871 in Greeneville, Tennessee, † July 6, 1934 ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1933 he represented the state of Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Oscar Lovette attended the public schools of his home including the Parrot Junior High School. Subsequently, he studied until 1893 at Tusculum College. After a subsequent law degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and its made ​​in 1896 admitted to the bar he began in Greeneville to work in his new profession. He was also active in the banking industry. Between 1912 and 1918, Lovette was president of a local bank. Between 1918 and 1926 he was a prosecutor in the first judicial district of his state. At that time he also served as curator of the Tusculum College.

Politically, Lovette member of the Republican Party. Between 1895 and 1897 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Tennessee. In the congressional elections of 1930, he was the first electoral district of Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of B. Carroll Reece on March 4, 1931. Since he was not nominated in 1932 by his party for re-election and candidacy as an independent candidate was unsuccessful, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1933. This was overshadowed by the events of the economic crisis of the time. His predecessor, Carroll Reece was elected in the elections of 1932 as his successor.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Oscar Lovette practiced again as a lawyer in Greeneville. There he died on July 6, 1934.