David W. Dennis

David Worth Dennis ( born June 7, 1912 in Washington DC; † January 6, 1999 in Richmond, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1969 and 1975 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Dennis attended the Sidwell Friends School to 1929 in the German capital Washington and thereafter until 1933, the Earlham College in Richmond. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his made ​​in 1936 admitted to the bar he began to work in Richmond in this profession. Between 1939 and 1943 Dennis District Attorney was in the local Wayne County. Between 1944 and 1946 he served in the final stages of World War II in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the U.S. Army. He was employed in the Pacific.

Politically, Dennis member of the Republican Party. Between 1947 and 1949, and again from 1953 to 1959 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1968 he was elected the tenth constituency of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Richard L. Roudebush on January 3, 1969. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1975 three legislative periods. In this time, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal fell. While this scandal David Dennis was a long time supporter of President Richard Nixon. He also voted against the proposed impeachment of the president after his trespasses were already revealed. This was also one of the reasons for his deselection in 1974. During his time as a congressman he belonged temporarily to the Justice Committee on.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Dennis David practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 6 January 1999 in Richmond.