Courtland C. Gillen

Courtland Craig Gillen ( born July 3, 1880 in Roachdale, Putnam County, Indiana, † September 1, 1954 in Greencastle, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1933 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Courtland Gillen attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1897, the Fincastle High School. Between 1897 and 1904 he taught himself as a teacher. At the same time he continued 1901-1903 his own training with studies at DePauw University continued. After studying law and its made ​​in 1904 admitted to the bar he began in Greencastle to work in this profession. Between 1909 and 1914, Gillen served as district attorney. In the years 1917 and 1918, he served as a prosecutor in the 64th Judicial District of Indiana.

Politically, Gillen member of the Democratic Party. In 1924 he was a delegate to the regional convention in Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1930 he was in the fifth electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Noble J. Johnson on March 4, 1931. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1932, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1933. This was marked by the events of the Great Depression.

Between 1935 and 1939 Courtland Gillen judge in the 64th Judicial District of the State of. He then practiced as a private attorney. He died on 1 September 1954 in Greencastle.