Henry Thomas Rainey

Henry Thomas Rainey ( born August 20, 1860 in Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, † August 19 1934 in St. Louis, Missouri ) was a U.S. Representative (Democratic Party) and from 1933 until his death the following year the 45th speaker of the house of Representatives of the United States.

After attending the public schools and Knox Academy sat Henry Rainey his training on the Knox College in Galesburg continued; it was followed by the statements at Amherst College in 1883 and two years later at the Union College of Law in Chicago. Yet in 1885 he was admitted to the bar and began to practice in his home town of Carrollton.

Between 1887 and 1895, Rainey worked as a legal assistant (master in chancery ) at the chancery of the Greene County employs, before he returned to private practice. 1902 then began his political career when he was first elected to the 20th Congressional District of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives. After multiple re-election, he defeated 1902 Republican Guy L. Shaw and retired from the Congress. Two years later he retook his seat.

When John Nance Garner, formerly Minority Leader of the Democratic minority faction in the House of Representatives, following rise to several victories of his party in Congress elections on December 7, 1931 Speaker, to Rainey running for the job of party leader - now Majority Leader - and sat down against it Whip John McDuffie by. On March 9, 1933, he joined again at Garner's successor after it had become on the side of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vice President of the United States.

Rainey became an important ally of Roosevelt. He wore ensure that the new government could implement the measures of the New Deal without major changes through parliament. Most reform programs were adopted in the beginning of the session in December 1933. Henry Rainey died in the summer of the following year, one day before his 74th birthday, to a heart attack.

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