Dan R. McGehee

Daniel Rayford McGehee ( born September 10, 1883 in Little Springs, Franklin County, Mississippi; † February 9, 1962 in Meadville, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1947 he represented the seventh election district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Daniel McGehee attended until 1903, the Mississippi College in Clinton. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and its made ​​in 1909 admitted to the bar he began in Meadville to work in his new profession. He was also active in the banking industry and in agriculture.

McGehee was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1924 to 1928 and again in 1932-1934 he was in the Senate from Mississippi. In between, he was from 1928 to 1932 Member of the House of Representatives of the State. 1934 McGehee was selected in the seventh district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Lawrence R. Ellzey on 3 January 1935. After he was confirmed in the following five congressional elections each in his mandate, he was able to complete up to January 3, 1947 a total of six legislative sessions in Congress. Between 1941 and 1947 he was chairman of the Committee on Claims, a committee which dealt with claims to the federal government.

For the elections of 1946, McGehee has not been nominated by his party for another term. Then he withdrew from politics and resumed the lawyer. But he was still engaged in agriculture and in the banking industry.

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