Frank H. Buck

Frank Henry Buck ( * September 23, 1887 in Vacaville, California, † December 17, 1942 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1942 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Buck attended the common schools and then studied until 1908 at the University of California at Berkeley. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1911 was admitted to the bar he began in San Francisco to work in this profession. He also was active in the fruit-growing and as a farmer in Vacaville. Later he went into the lumber business and the oil industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1928, 1936 and 1940 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Buck was selected in the third electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Charles F. Curry Jr. on March 4, 1933. After four elections he could remain until his death on 17 December 1942 at the Congress. During his time in Congress, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked. In 1933, as enshrined in the 18th Amendment prohibition was repealed with alcoholic beverages because of practical infeasibility again with the 21st Amendment.