Donald C. Dobbins

Donald Claude Dobbins (* March 20, 1878 in Dewey, Champaign County, Illinois, † February 14, 1943 in Champaign, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Donald Dobbins attended the common schools and then studied at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He then continued his education at the Dixon Business College and at George Washington University in Washington DC continued. Between 1896 and 1899 he worked as a teacher. From 1900 to 1906 he worked as a stenographer and correspondent. This was followed up in 1909 to a position with the U.S. Federal Post Office. After studying law and his 1909 was admitted to the bar he began in Champaign to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In June 1936 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated to the President Franklin D. Roosevelt for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Dobbins was elected in the 19th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Republican Charles Adkins on March 4, 1933. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1937 two legislative sessions. During his time in Congress, many of the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted. In 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.

1936 renounced Donald Dobbins on another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on February 14, 1943 in Champaign.