Peter F. Mack, Jr.

Peter Francis Mack, Jr. ( born November 1, 1916 in Carlinville, Illinois, † July 4, 1986 in Rockville, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1963 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter Mack attended the common schools and the Blackburn College. He then studied at the Saint Louis University in Missouri. He was then trained in Springfield to the pilot. He later worked in Carlinville first in the car trade. Then he became a professional pilot. During the Second World War, Mack served since 1942 in aircraft corps of the U.S. Navy. In 1951, he made ​​headlines when he rounded as a pilot of a single-engine plane flying solo the world.

Politically, Mack joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1948 he was in the 21st electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the meantime retired Republican George Evan Howell on January 3, 1949. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1963 seven legislative sessions. In this time, the initial phase of the Cold War, the Korean War and domestic politics of the beginning of the civil rights movement fell.

In 1962, Peter Mack was not re-elected. Between 1963 and 1975 he served as assistant to the president of the Southern Railway. He also operated a real estate agency and an investment company. 1974 and 1976 he applied unsuccessfully to each returning to the Congress. Mack spent his life in Potomac (Maryland) and died on July 4, 1986 in Rockville. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.