Fred C. Gilchrist

Fred Cramer Gilchrist ( born June 2, 1868 in California, Washington County, Pennsylvania, † March 10, 1950 in Laurens, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1945 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1871, Fred Gilchrist came with his parents to Cedar Falls, Iowa. There he attended the public schools and then to 1886, the State Teachers College. Between 1886 and 1892 he worked as a teacher, where he also had the supervision of the public schools in Pocahontas County 1890-1892. After studying law at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and its made ​​in 1893 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Laurens.

Gilchrist was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1902 and 1904 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa. From 1905 to 1928 he was Head of the Education Committee of the municipality Laurens. Between 1923 and 1931, Gilchrist was a member of the Senate of Iowa.

In 1930 he became the tenth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lester J. Dickinson on March 4, 1931. Since his district but was disbanded after the end of his first term, he was confirmed in subsequent elections until 1940, each in the eighth district, where he replaced Lloyd Thurston on March 4, 1933. During his last term in Congress from 1943 to 1945 Gilchrist represented as the successor to Paul Cunningham the fifth district of Iowa. In total, he served between 4 March 1931, to January 3, 1945 in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he represented three constituencies. During this time, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Congress, by which the effects of the global economic crisis could be gradually overcome. The last two sessions of Gilchrist were overshadowed by the events of World War II. Also during his time in Congress were the 20th and the 21st Amendment, discussed and adopted. The periods between the Congress and presidential elections and the inauguration were shortened and the 18th Amendment, the Prohibition Act of 1919, repealed. In 1944, Gilchrist was defeated in the primaries of his party and was therefore no longer be nominated for another term.

In the following years he moved back to Laurens, where he again worked as a lawyer and died in 1950.