Daniel Read Anthony, Jr.

Daniel Read Anthony Jr. ( born August 22, 1870 in Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas; † August 4, 1931 ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1929 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Anthony was the son of an influential abolitionist Daniel Read Anthony, and the nephew of suffragist Susan B. Anthony. After primary school he attended the Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Anthony also studied law and was admitted to the bar. But he has this profession rarely exercised. Instead, he went into the newspaper business. Between 1898 and 1902 he was postmaster at Leavenworth; 1903 to 1905 he was mayor of that city. In 1904 he became editor of the newspaper " Leavenworth Daily Times ".

Anthony was a member of the Republican Party and elected after the resignation of Congressman and later U.S. Vice President Charles Curtis, who moved to the United States Senate at the time as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives. After ten elections he could remain between May 23, 1907, and March 3, 1929 at the Congress. From 1927 to 1929 he was chairman of the Budget Committee. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the First World War, the introduction of women's suffrage and the prohibition law.

In 1928, Daniel Anthony opted not to run again. He retired from politics, went back to his private affairs, and died on August 4, 1931 in his birthplace Leavenworth.