Andrew J. Transue

Andrew Jackson Transue ( born January 12, 1903 in Clarksville, Ionia County, Michigan, † 24 June 1995 in Flint, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1939 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Life

Andrew Transue attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law at the Detroit College of Law and its made ​​in 1926 admitted to the bar he began in Detroit and Flint to work in his new profession. From 1933 to 1937 he was a prosecutor in Genesee County.

Politically, Transue member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1936 he was in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican William W. Blackney on January 3, 1937. Since he lost to Blackney in the following elections in 1938, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1939 while the other New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted.

After his retirement from the House of Representatives Andrew Transue withdrew from politics. In the following decades, he practiced as a lawyer again in Flint, where he died on 24 June 1995.

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