Charles R. Farnsley

Charles Rowland Peaslee Farnsley ( born March 28, 1907 in Louisville, Kentucky, † June 19, 1990 ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Farnsley visited the Male High School in Louisville and then studied until 1930 at the University of Louisville, among others, Jura. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began to work in his hometown in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1936 and 1940 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. From 1948 to 1953 he served as Mayor of Louisville. In 1952 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was first nominated to the Adlai Stevenson as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1964 Farnsley was in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Republican Gene Snyder took on 3 January 1965 he had beaten in the election. Since he resigned in 1966 to run again, Farnsley was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1967. This period was dominated by discussions about the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives was Farnsley publisher and president of the " Lost Cause Press." He died on 19 June 1990 in his native Louisville from Alzheimer 's disease.