Irving Ives

Irving McNeil Ives ( born January 24, 1896 in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York, † February 24, 1962 in Norwich, New York ) was an American politician.

Life

After he had completed compulsory schools, Ives came early on in the United States Army. In 1917 he was sent as a soldier to Europe, where it was used in the coming years as an infantryman in World War I and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. From 1919, he attended Hamilton College in Clinton, he was able to successfully finish a year later. In the 1920s he worked as an insurance agent and a bank employee.

In 1930 he was elected as a deputy of the Republican Party in the New York State Assembly, the House of Representatives of the State of New York. In the 16 years, which Ives belonged to the chamber of parliament, he held various offices, including in 1935 as a speaker. From 1936 he held the position of majority leader. He was regarded as a liberal member of his party and supported the policy of New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey.

1946 Ives ran successfully for a seat in the Senate of the United States, in which he entered on 3 January 1947. From this time on he was a delegate at three Republican National Conventions. In 1952 he was re-elected as a senator. 1954 Ives ran for the governorship of New York, but was defeated in a very close election the democrats Averell Harriman, who received only 11,000 votes more than Ives. In 1958, he was not nominated by his party for re-election so that Ives on January 3, 1959 retired from the Senate.

Irving Ives was also a promoter of educational institutions; he was the founding dean of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, a branch of education at Cornell University. He died three years after his departure from the Senate at the age of 65 years.

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