Glenn Griswold

Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold ( born January 20, 1890 in New Haven, Franklin County, Missouri, † December 5, 1940 in Peru, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1939 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Glenn Griswold attended the public schools of his home. In 1911 he moved to Peru in Indiana. After a subsequent law degree from Valparaiso Law School and its made ​​in 1917 admitted to the bar he began in Peru to work in this profession. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army. Between 1921 and 1925 he was the legal representative of the city of Peru; in the years 1925 and 1926 he served as District Attorney in Miami County. In 1930 he joined the railroad committee of the State of Indiana.

Politically Griswold was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1930, he was the eleventh electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Albert R. Hall on March 4, 1931. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1939 four legislative sessions. Since 1933, he represented there as a successor of Courtland C. Gillen the fifth district of his state. Between 1933 and 1939 most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were passed in Congress.

In 1938, Glenn Griswold was defeated by Republican Forest Harness. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in Peru. There he is on December 5, 1940, died.