Don Hilary Gingery

Don Hilary Gingery ( born February 19, 1884 in Woodland, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, † 15 October 1961, in Clearfield, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1939 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Since 1892, Don Gingery lived in Clearfield, where he attended the public schools. After he graduated from the Mercersburg Academy and the Ohio Northern University in Ada. Between 1902 and 1934 he worked in the trade of goods and iron mining consumer goods. In 1903, he also worked in the construction industry. From 1902 to 1906 he was a member of the National Guard of his home state, where he rose to the captain. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1915 and 1916 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1916 to 1917 he was district chairman of the Democrats in Clearfield County. He also sat in the years 1919 and 1920 in the State Board of his party.

In the congressional elections of 1934 Gingery was the 23rd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Jacob Banks Kurtz on 3 January 1935. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 two legislative sessions. During this time other New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends or begins on January 3. In the same year Gingery was a member of the American delegation at the inauguration of Philippine President Manuel Quezon.

1938 Don Gingery was not re-elected. Between 1939 and 1946 he worked for various branches of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Altoona. In July 1948 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in part, was nominated to the President Harry S. Truman for re-election. He died on October 15, 1961 in Clearfield, where he was also buried.