Joe Crail

Joe Crail (born 25 December 1877 in Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa; † March 2, 1938 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1933 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joe Crail attended the common schools and then studied at Drake University in Des Moines. During the Spanish- American War of 1898, he was a soldier in a message unit. After that he belonged to the occupation forces in Cuba. After studying law at the Iowa College of Law in Des Moines and his 1903 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Fairfield in this profession. In 1913 he moved his residence and his law firm in Los Angeles. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1918 and 1920 he was chairman of the Republican Party for Southern California.

In the congressional elections of 1926, Crail was the tenth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John D. Fredericks on 4 March 1927. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 three legislative periods. Since 1929 the work of the Congress was shaped by the events of the Great Depression. 1932 Crail renounced to another candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again; He also became active in the banking industry. Joe Crail died on March 2, 1938 in Los Angeles.

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