David Hayes Kincheloe

David Hayes Kincheloe (* April 9, 1877 in Sacramento, McLean County, Kentucky, † April 16, 1950 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1915 and 1930 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Kincheloe attended the common schools and the Bowling Green College. After a subsequent law degree in 1899 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in Calhoun to work in this profession. Between 1902 and 1906 was a prosecutor in McLean County. In 1906 he moved to Madisonville, where he practiced law.

Politically, Kincheloe member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1914, he was elected in the second district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Augustus Owsley Stanley on March 4, 1915. After seven elections he could remain until his resignation on 5 October 1930 Congress. In this time of the First World War and the beginning of the Great Depression fell. In the years 1918 and 1919, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

After Kincheloe was appointed in 1930 to a federal judgeship on the United States Customs Court, he resigned his seat, which fell after a by-election to John Lloyd Dorsey. This judicial office he held until retirement on 30 April 1948. Kincheloe David died on 16 April 1950 in the German capital Washington and was buried in Madisonville.