Gilbert A. Currie

Gilbert Archibald Currie ( born September 19, 1882 in Midland, Michigan, † June 5, 1960 ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1921 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gilbert Currie attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1905 admitted to the bar he began in Midland to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1909 and 1915 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan, he served as Chairman since 1914. In 1914 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the congressional elections.

In the 1916 elections Currie was then but in the tenth Congressional District of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George A. Loud on March 4, 1917. After a re-election in 1918 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1921 two legislative sessions. This period was, among other things, the First World War. In addition, at that time the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted in Congress.

1920 Currie was not nominated by his party for re-election. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again; He also became involved in the banking industry. Politically Gilbert Currie is not more have appeared. He died on June 5, 1960 in Midland, where he was also buried.

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