Donald B. Partridge

Donald Barrows Partridge ( born June 7, 1891 in Norway, Oxford County, Maine, † June 5, 1946 in Portland, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1933 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Donald Partridge attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1914, the Bates College in Lewiston. Between 1914 and 1917 he taught himself as a teacher at the high school in Canton. After that, he was from 1919 to 1931 in addition to his other activities listed below also Clerk to the High Court in Oxford County. After a simultaneous study of law and its made ​​in 1924 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Norway. Between 1924 and 1931 Partridge was also town clerk in Norway.

Politically, Partridge member of the Republican Party. For six years he led the Presidency of the Oxford County. In 1930, he was then in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Wallace H. White on March 4, 1931. Since he was not nominated in 1932 by his party for another term, Partridge was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1933. This was overshadowed by the effects of the global economic crisis. During this time, the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, the newly stipulated the beginning and end of the terms of office of the Congress and the President.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Donald Partridge again worked as a lawyer. He was also a member of the Maine Industrial Accident Commission, a commission was concerned at the state level with industrial accidents. He died on June 5, 1946 during a business trip in Portland and was buried in his native Norway.