J. Roland Kinzer

John Roland Kinzer ( born March 28, 1874 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, † July 25, 1955 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1930 and 1947 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Roland Kinzer attended the public schools of his home and then two colleges in Lancaster. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began in Lancaster to work in this profession. Between 1912 and 1923 he was there district attorney. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In June 1928 he was a delegate attended the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, was nominated on the Herbert Hoover as a presidential candidate.

After the death of Mr William Walton Griest Kinzer was in the overdue election for the seat tenth of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 28 January 1930. After eight elections he could remain until January 3, 1947 in Congress. Since 1945, he represented there the ninth constituency of his state. During his time in Congress, the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there have been adopted since 1933. 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. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In 1946 Roland Kinzer gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 25 July 1955 in Lancaster, where he was also buried.