Bird J. Vincent

Bird J. Vincent ( * March 6, 1880 in Clarkston, Michigan, † July 18, 1931 aboard a ship between Hawaii and California ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1931 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bird Vincent attended the public schools of his home and then the Ferris Institute. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1905 admitted to the bar he began in Saginaw to work in his new profession. From 1909 to 1914 he was deputy prosecutor in Saginaw County. He then moved on in this district for the first prosecutor. This office he held until 1917. During the First World War he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army for ten months in France. After his return, he was 1919-1923 Trial Attorney of the city of Saginaw.

Politically, Vincent a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1922 he was in the eighth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph W. Fordney on March 4, 1923. After four elections he could remain until his death in Congress. From 1925 to 1931 he was chairman of the Committee on Elections No.. 2 Bird Vincent died on July 18, 1931 of a heart attack aboard the Navy transport ship USS Henderson on the return trip from Honolulu to San Francisco. He was buried in Saginaw. After a by-election from his position fell to the Democrats Michael J. Hart.

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