Sam C. Massingale

Samuel Chapman Massingale ( born August 2, 1870 in Quitman, Clarke County, Mississippi; † January 17, 1941 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1941 he represented the seventh election district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Sam Massingale attended the common schools and then the University of Mississippi in Oxford. In 1887 he moved to Fort Worth in Texas. After studying law and his 1895 was admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Cordell in Washita County. During the Spanish- American War was Massingale soldier in the U.S. Army.

Politically, Massingale joined the Democratic Party. In 1902 he became a member of the Governing Council in Oklahoma Territory. In the congressional elections of 1906 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Then he took a nearly 20 - year political break, during which he worked for his private interests and worked as a lawyer.

1934 Massingale returned back to the political arena and secured in the seventh district of Oklahoma electoral victory for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he broke on January 3, 1935 from James V. McClintic, whom he had beaten in the primaries of his party. In the elections of 1936, 1938 and 1940, he was confirmed in each case in its mandate. His last term began on January 3, 1941. Massingale Sam died two weeks later on 17 January 1941. He was buried in Cordell. Its seat was necessitated after the election of Victor Wickersham.