Homer D. Angell

Homer Daniel Angell ( born January 12, 1875 in The Dalles, Oregon, † March 31, 1968 in Portland, Oregon ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1955 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Homer Angell attended the common schools and then studied until 1900 at the University of Oregon in Eugene. After a subsequent law degree at Columbia University in New York City in 1903 he was admitted to the bar. Then he started in Portland, Oregon practice his new profession.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1929, 1931 and 1935 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Oregon; 1937-1938 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1938 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Nan Wood Honeyman on January 3, 1939. After he was confirmed in the following elections each in his office, he was able to complete up to January 3, 1955 a total of eight legislative sessions in Congress. In the primaries for the election of the year 1954, Angell could not prevail within his party. He later succumbed to the Governor Tom McCall, who in turn lost to Edith Green of the Democratic Party.

After his time in Congress, Homer Angell withdrew into retirement. But he remained interested in politics and participated in the following ten years, even in local politics in Oregon. He died in March 1968 at the age of 93 years. Homer Angell was married to his former secretary Margaret Clagget since 1950.