William Larrabee (Indiana)

William Henry Larrabee ( born February 21, 1870 Crawfordsville, Indiana, † November 16, 1960 in New Palestine, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1943 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Larrabee attended the common schools and the Central Indiana Normal School in Danville and the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute. Between 1889 and 1895 he taught as a teacher in New Palestine. After a subsequent study of medicine at the Indiana School of Medicine in Indianapolis and its made ​​in 1898 he began medical license in New Palestine to work in this profession. In the years 1917 and 1918 he was Secretary of the Health Committee of Hancock County.

Politically, Larrabee joined the Democratic Party. Between 1916 and 1920 he sat on the city council of New Palestine; and in 1923 to 1925 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1930 he was in the sixth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard N. Elliott on March 4, 1931. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 six legislative periods. There, until 1941, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked. In 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified. Larrabee represented since 1933 as the successor to Glenn Griswold the eleventh district of his state. Between 1935 and 1939 he was chairman of the Committee on the Census; 1937 to 1943 he headed the Education Committee. In 1942 he was not re-elected.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives William Larrabee practiced as a doctor again. He died on 16 November 1960 at the age of 90 in New Palestine.