Carroll L. Beedy

Carroll Lynwood Beedy ( born August 3, 1880 in Phillips, Franklin County, Maine; † August 30, 1947 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1935 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Beedy Carroll attended the public schools in Lewiston. He also graduated from the Bates College in 1903. After a subsequent law degree from Yale University and his made ​​in 1906 admitted to the bar he began in Portland to work in his new profession. Between 1917 and 1921, Beedy district attorney in Cumberland County.

Beedy was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1920, he was elected in the first district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1921 the successor of Louis B. Goodall, who had no longer a candidate. After six elections Beedy could pass in Congress until January 3, 1935 a total of seven contiguous legislatures. Between 1923 and 1927 he was chairman of the Committee on Mileage. He was also from 1925 to 1927 Member of the Committee to monitor the expenditure of the Ministry of Labour. Between 1927 and 1931 belonged Beedy also the Committee on Elections No.. 1 at.

During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives there were in 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment, discussed and adopted. It was about changing the terms of office of the President and Congress as well as the repeal of alcohol prohibition in 1919. His last years in the House of Representatives were determined by the global economic crisis. In the 1934 elections Beedy defeated Democrat Simon M. Hamlin. After retiring from Congress Beedy worked in Washington as a lawyer. There he is on 30 August 1947, died.