Denver David Hargis

Denver David Hargis ( born July 22, 1921 in Key West, Florida; † 16 March 1989) is an American politician.

1922 Hargis moved with his parents to Coffeyville, Kansas. During the Second World War, he served from January 1941 to October 1943 in the United States Navy. He then studied at Washburn University in Topeka, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1946 and visited after the law department of the university, where he eventually received in 1948 his Bachelor of Laws. In the same year Hargis was admitted to the legal profession, and began to practice in Coffeyville. From 1953 to 1958 he was mayor of the city. From Governor George Docking, he was appointed in 1956 in the Arkansas River Basin Committee, to whom he should belong to 1959. At the same time Hargis tried unsuccessfully to be elected to the 85th Congress. This only two years later, when he was in 1958 elected as a Democrat to the 86th Congress and there represented the state of Kansas from 3 January 1959 to January 3, 1961 U.S. House of Representatives succeeded. In the elections to the 87th Congress he could not defend his position. During his time as an MP Hargis was a delegate to the 1960 Democratic National Convention.

Later he worked as a consultant in the Department of Defense (1961-1962) and the Ministry of Trade ( 1962-1966 ). In the following decades Hargis worked in the insurance industry and was a manager and later owner of several insurance companies in Florida. In 1985, he sat down to rest. Hargis now lives in Sarasota.