Jerry Voorhis

Jerry Voorhis ( born April 6, 1901 in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas, † September 11, 1984 in Claremont, California ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. As a Member of the House of Representatives, he represented the twelfth congressional district of the state of California from January 3, 1937 to January 3, 1947 ( 75th to 79th Congress ). In the Voorhis Act of 1940, he pushed through that certain organizations that were controlled by foreign forces, had to register. In the congressional elections in 1946 he lost to his Republican rival Richard Nixon.

Life

Jerry Voorhis was on April 6, 1901 in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of Charles Brown Voorhis ( born March 13, 1870 † September 16, 1961 ) and Ella Ward (born Smith) was born. Voorhis ' father owned a hardware store in Ottawa, but then worked for the Kingman Plough Corporation in Oklahoma City, selling farm machinery to the ever-increasing number of farmers in Kansas and Oklahoma. 1911 took over the father, the line of a branch of the company in Kansas City, Missouri, then went to the deputy head of Kingman Plough Corp.. and on the Voorhis family had to Peoria, Illinois to move.

Charles B. Voorhis joined the auto industry, whose meteoric rise just began, began at the Oakland Motors in Pontiac, Michigan to work ( a branch plant of General Motors / GM ), was here first sales manager, then vice-president. Repeated change occurred after 1916/1917, the Nash Motors Corporation was founded in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Jerry Voorhis ' father here again, first sales manager, then vice - president.

1925 retired from Charles Voorhis from work and the family settled in Pasadena. Due to the numerous career changes of his father and the resulting local changes taking place, had Jerry Voorhis change schools, public schools visited in Ottawa, Oklahoma City, Peoria and Pontiac. After finishing school he began studying at Yale University, which he with a thesis on the British labor movement graduated in 1923 with honors. During his studies he was active for YMCA and other Christian organizations, taught immigrants, traveled as a representative of the American Christian Social Gospel Movement Germany, England and Czechoslovakia. However, after completing his studies, he suggested a not actually mapped out academic career, but began to work in factories. Among other things, he was for two years on the assembly line of the Ford Motor Company in Charlotte, North Carolina.

During these years, his sensibility was formed for social problems, his untiring solidarity with the poor out of the country. In 1924 he married Alice Louise Livingston from Washington, Iowa. The following year he became a teacher at the Allendale School for Homeless Boys for orphaned and disadvantaged youth in Lake Villa, Illinois, taught here for about a year. Then, at the request of a family friend, he went to Laramie, Wyoming to get along with his wife leading a orphanage with adjoining school for about 30 young people - to take over - the Dray Cottage Home for Boys.

But just a year after he agreed to the proposal of his father to establish with him a orphanage school in California, and so they built the Voorhis School for Boys in San Dimas. At the same time he studied at the Claremont Graduate School postgraduate studies, it closed in 1928 from the series The Education of the institution Boy and him the MA designation. Then headed Jerry Voorhis 1928 to 1938 the newly founded school, taught next 1930-1935 at Pomona College in Claremont.

Works

• The education of the institution boy ( MA thesis) 1928
• The story of Voorhis school for boys. 1932
• The morale of democracy. 1941
• Out of debt, out of danger. Proposals for war finance and tomorrow's money. 1943
• Beyond victory. 1944
• Confessions of a congressman. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1970 ( d Repr ed Garden City, N. Y. 1947)
• The Christian in politics. 1951
• American cooperatives. Where they come from, What They Do, wherethey are going. 1961 (Reprint 1973)
• The strange case of Richard Milhous Nixon. 1972 ( Reprint 1973)
• Cooperative enterprise. The little people's chance in a world of bigness. 1975
• The life and times of Aurelius Lyman Voorhis. 1976
• Confession of faith. 1978