Hamer H. Budge

Hamer Harold Budge ( born November 21, 1910 in Pocatello, Idaho, † 22 July 2003 in Scottsdale, Arizona ) was an American politician ( Republican). Between 1951 and 1961 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hamer Budge attended the public schools in Boise. From 1928 to 1930 he studied at the College of Idaho in Caldwell and then to 1933 at Stanford University in California. After a final law degree from the University of Idaho from 1936 he began to work as a lawyer.

From 1939 to 1941, and in 1949 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Idaho. During the Second World War was Budge soldier in the U.S. Navy, whose reserve he also belonged later. In 1950 he was elected in the second district of Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced John C. Sanborn on January 3, 1951. After some re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1961 a total of five contiguous legislatures. But in 1960 he was defeated in the elections the Democrats Ralph R. Harding.

Between 1961 and 1964, Hamer Budge judges in the third judicial district of Idaho. In 1964 he became the national Securities and Exchange Commission appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. From 1969 until his retirement in 1971, he was Chairman ( Chairman ) of this Commission. After that, he was still to 1978 president of the Mutual Funds Group in Minneapolis. Hamer Budge died in July 2003 in Arizona, and was buried in Boise.