James S. Golden

James Stephen Golden ( born September 20, 1891 in Barbourville, Kentucky, † September 6, 1971 in Pineville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1955 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Golden attended the public schools of his home. Then he studied until 1912 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his 1916 was admitted to the bar he began in Barboursville to work in this profession. Between 1918 and 1922 he served as a prosecutor in Knox County. Politically, Golden member of the Republican Party. In 1952 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated at the Dwight D. Eisenhower as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1948 Golden in the ninth constituency of Kentucky was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Lewis on January 3, 1949. After a re-election in 1950 he was able to represent this district until its dissolution on January 3, 1953 at the Congress. In the elections of 1952 he was elected to succeed Joe B. Bates in the eighth district again in the U.S. House of Representatives. Between January 1949 and January 3, 1955 3 he was able to complete three legislative periods. This period was marked by the Korean War and the beginning of the Cold War and the events of the civil rights movement.

In 1954, James Golden renounced another candidacy. After he retired from politics. In the following years until his death on September 6, 1971, he practiced as a lawyer again.