Charles A. Kennedy

Charles Augustus Kennedy ( born March 24, 1869 in Montrose, Lee County, Iowa; † January 10, 1951 ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1921 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Kennedy worked in the field of horticulture and landscape architecture. He became a member of the Republican Party. Between 1890 and 1895 he was mayor of his home town of Montrose; 1903 to 1905 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa.

In the congressional elections of 1906, Kennedy was the first electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Hedge on March 4, 1907. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1921 seven contiguous legislatures. In this time of the First World War and the adoption of several additions to the Constitution of the United States where inter alia, amended the tax law and the direct election of U.S. senators were regulated by law fell. Between 1907 and 1911, Kennedy was chairman of the Committee on Mileage and from 1919 to 1921 it belonged to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors on.

1920 renounced Charles Kennedy on another candidacy. In the following decades until his death in January 1951, he worked in banking.