Chester B. McMullen

Chester Bartow McMullen ( born December 6, 1902 in Largo, Florida, † November 3, 1953 in Clearwater, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1951 and 1953 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Chester McMullen attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Florida and its made ​​in 1924 admitted to the bar he began in Clearwater to work in his new profession. In 1927 and 1928 he was a prosecutor in Pinellas County, from 1930 to 1950 then in the sixth judicial district of his home state. He also was director of the First National Bank of Clearwater.

Politically, McMullen was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1950 he was the first electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of J. Hardin Peterson on January 3, 1951. Since he resigned in 1952 to another candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1953. This was determined by the events of the Cold War and the Korean War.

Chester McMullen died only a few months after his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives on 3 November 1953. He was married to Veda E. Ulmer, with whom he had two children.