James Simpson, Jr.

James Simpson, Jr. ( born January 7, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, † February 29, 1960 in Wadsworth, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Simpson attended 1919-1922 in Concord St Paul's School (New Hampshire ) and then from 1922 to 1925 the Westminster School in Salisbury (Connecticut). Later he studied at Harvard University. Between 1931 and his death in 1960 he was a director of the Company Marshall Field & Co. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Simpson was in the tenth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Carl R. Chindblom on March 4, 1933. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1934, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. During this time the first of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which Simpsons Party faced a rather negative. 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.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives was Simpson owns several farms in Lake County, Illinois, in Culpeper County, Virginia. During the Second World War since 1943, he served as an officer of the Marine Corps in the Pacific. Until his retirement from military service he had made it up to the captain. In the years 1953 and 1954 he was advisor to the then Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck Stevens. James Simpson died on February 29, 1960 on his farm near Wadsworth and was buried in Chicago.