J. Leroy Adair

Jackson Leroy Adair ( born February 23, 1887 in Clayton, Adams County, Illinois; † 19 January 1956 in Quincy, Illinois) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

Leroy Adair attended the public schools of his home and then the Illinois College at Jacksonville. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his 1911 was admitted to the bar he began in Muskogee (Oklahoma) to work in this profession. In 1913 he moved his residence and his law firm to Quincy in Illinois. He also worked in agriculture. He also veterinary medicines forth for cattle breeding. In the years 1914 to 1916 Adair was urban lawyer in Quincy. Between 1916 and 1920, and again from 1924 to 1928, he served as a prosecutor in Adams County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1928 to 1932 he was a member of the Illinois Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Adair was in the 15th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of M. Burnett Chiperfield on March 4, 1933. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1937 two legislative sessions. During his time in Congress, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

In 1936 Leroy Adair gave up another candidacy. From April 27 1937 to his death on 19 January 1956 he was a judge at the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.