Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers ( * February 1, 1869 in Williamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky, † July 25, 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1919 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Caleb Powers attended the common schools and the Union College in Barbourville. He then studied at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and at the Centre College in Danville. In addition, he was a student at Valparaiso University in Indiana and at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. After a subsequent law degree in 1894 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Barboursville to work in this profession. Between 1894 and 1899 he was in the Knox County School Board.

Powers was a member of the Republican Party. In 1899 he was elected to succeed Charles Finley to the Secretary of State of Kentucky. After an election the opposition he had to give up but this office again. In 1900 it came to Kentucky to political unrest. The sad climax of violent clashes was the assassination of Governor William Goebel. In connection with this attack Powers was arrested as the mastermind. He was initially sentenced in multiple processes to life imprisonment. He spent the next eight years in prison. There he wrote his book "My Own Story". In 1908, he was pardoned by Governor Augustus E. Willson.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Powers was in the eleventh electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Don C. Edwards on March 4, 1913. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1919 four legislative sessions. In this time of the First World War and the ratification of the 16th and the 17th constitutional amendment fell. In June 1912 Powers delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the President William Howard Taft was nominated for re-election.

In 1918, Powers renounced another candidacy. He remained in Washington and worked from 1921 until his death on 25 July 1932 as consultant to the United States Shipping Board. He was buried in Barboursville.