Francis H. Case

Francis Higbee Case ( born December 9, 1896 in Everly, Clay County, Iowa, † June 22, 1962 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was an American politician.

Life

Francis Case came in 1909, at the age of 13 years, with his parents to South Dakota, where he spent the rest of his childhood and youth in Sturgis ( Meade County). In 1918 he graduated from the Dakota Wesleyan University, two years later, in 1920, followed by his graduation from Northwestern University in Illinois. In World War Case served both in the United States Army and in the United States Marine Corps.

His professional career began as an editor with Case various newspapers; so initially from 1920 to 1922 at Epworth Herald in Chicago. It followed other employments in South Dakota; the Daily Journal in Rapid City from 1922 to 1925, the Hot Springs Star in Hot Springs during the period 1925-1931 and finally from 1931 to 1946 at the Custer Chronicle in Custer.

1934 was a candidate of the Republican Case for the first time for a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States, but was subject to its first Democratic opponent Theodore B. Werner. Only two years later, in 1936, as a case again led the election campaign, he managed to carry off the victory against Werner. He retired on January 3, 1937 in the Congress in Washington DC, where he could his seat in parliament for 14 years, until January 3, 1951 to defend. 1950 Case ran for a seat in the Senate of the United States. He was able to defeat in the primaries the Republican incumbent John Chandler Gurney and decide the elections in the autumn of the same year for themselves. Case pulled on January 3, 1951 in the second chamber of parliament, in which he was confirmed by re-election in 1956.

Only a few months before his second term could have ended, suffered Senator Case in June 1962 during his work in the Capitol a heart attack. He was even taken to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, however, where he died at the age of 65 years.

Today, the Lake Francis Case on the Missouri River carries in South Dakota in honor of U.S. Senator 's name. It was also a bridge that leads to the capital city Washington via Interstate 395, named after him.

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