Tasker Oddie

Tasker Lowndes Oddie ( born October 20, 1870 in Brooklyn, New York City; † February 17, 1950 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician.

Biography

Early life

Oddie, who grew up in East Orange (New Jersey), graduated from New York University, where he in 1895 obtained his law degree. Since he could not build a client base in New York, and was therefore only partly successful as a lawyer, he moved to Nevada in 1898, where he settled in Austin.

Oddies interest was agriculture and the rearing of livestock; he also was interested in the economic development of the city Tonopah, where silver had been found around the turn of the century.

Political career

His first step in the government's political Oddie 1901, when he for a year - was appointed district attorney of Nye County - until 1902. He was elected in 1903 in the Senate of Nevada and remained there until 1906.

Over the next five years, which he returned to Austin, where he practiced as a lawyer again. 1911 candidate Oddie as a party member the Republicans successfully for the office of Governor of Nevada and served until 1915. His most significant official act was the collection of Las Vegas to the city on March 17, 1911. Since Oddie was still unmarried at this time, his mother was Ellen and his two sisters, the First Lady of Nevada.

After being voted out in 1915 passed another five years, in which Oddie withdrew from the public. During this time, his marriage falls with Daisy Randal Mackeigan, with which he joined in 1918 before the altar.

1920 Oddie candidate for the office of U.S. Senator, a project which was also crowned with success. Oddie, who took office in March 1921, and was elected once again, officiated through March 1933 During this time he conducted the Senate Committee on Mines and mining.; He also sat on the Committee, in which the postal system and the railways were politically debated.

Late life

Tasker Oddie, who was defeated in 1933 by the Democrats as Senator Pat McCarran, then finally left politics, although he worked still in business.

He died at the age of 80 years in San Francisco and is buried in Carson City ( Nevada).

Others

The Mount Oddie, a mountain in Tonopah, was named after him. Also, there is one road that were baptized after the U.S. politicians Oddie Boulevard in Reno and Sparks.