George H. Tinkham

George Holden Tinkham ( born October 29, 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, † August 28 1956 in Cramerton, North Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1943 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Tinkham attended both public and private schools and then studied until 1894 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree from the same university in 1899 and was admitted to his lawyer, he began to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1897 and 1898 and from 1900 to 1902 he was a member of the City Council of Boston. Between 1910 and 1912 he sat in the Massachusetts Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Tinkham was the eleventh electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Andrew James Peters on March 4, 1915. After 13 re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 a total of 14 legislative periods. Since 1933, he represented there as the successor of John J. Douglass tenth district of his state. Although a member of Congress, Tinkham actively participated in the First World War. During his time in Congress, the 16th, the 17th, the 18th, the 19th, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. Since 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the events of the Second World War overshadowed the work of the Congress. Tinkham was among other things an opponent of the women's rights movement. He was against the prohibition and the abolition of child labor. He was also a staunch opponent of the New Deal legislation.

In 1942, George Tinkham gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 28 August 1956 in Cramerton and was buried in Boston.