Charles L. Gifford

Charles Laceille Gifford ( born March 15, 1871 in Cotuit, Barnstable County, Massachusetts; † August 23, 1947 ) was an American politician. Between 1922 and 1947 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Gifford attended the common schools. Between 1890 and 1900 he worked as a teacher in the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Then he went into the real estate business in Cape Cod. Later, he also acted with cranberries and oysters. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1912 and 1913 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; 1914 to 1919 he was a member of the State Senate.

Following the resignation of Mr Joseph Walsh Gifford was at the due election for the 16th seat from Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 7, 1922. After twelve elections he could remain until his death on August 23, 1947 in Congress. Since 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt; from 1941, the work of the Congress was marked by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. From 1933 to 1943 Gifford represented the 15th and since 1943 as the successor of Thomas H. Eliot ninth election district of his state. From 1925 to 1929 he was chairman of the third election committee; from 1929 to 1931 he headed the committee to supervise presidential and congressional elections.