Bertrand W. Gearhart

Bertrand Wesley Gearhart ( born May 31, 1890 in Fresno, California, † October 11, 1955 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1949 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bertrand Gearhart attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1910, the Boone's University School in Berkeley. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and his in 1913 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Fresno in this profession. During the First World War, he served 1917-1919 in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Thereafter he served until 1923 as a prosecutor in Fresno County. In 1932 he was a board member of the veteran 's home for California (California Veterans' Home). At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1933 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the California State Constitution.

In the congressional elections of 1934 Gearhart in the ninth constituency of California was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Denver S. Church on 3 January 1935. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1949 seven legislative sessions. By 1941 there more New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. Gearhart was considered extremely conservative MP. In 1948 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Bertrand Gearhart again practiced as a lawyer. He died on October 11, 1955 in San Francisco and was buried in Fresno.

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