John Chenoweth

John Edgar Chenoweth ( born August 17, 1897 in Trinidad, Colorado, † January 2, 1986 ) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1949, and from 1951 to 1965, he was the third election district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Chenoweth attended the common schools and then the University of Colorado at Boulder. Between 1916 and 1925 he worked in the railroad business and trade. After studying law and his 1925 was admitted to the bar in 1926, he began in his native Trinidad to work in his new profession. Between 1929 and 1933 he was a deputy district attorney for the third judicial district of Colorado; 1933 to 1941, he served as a district judge in Las Animas County.

Chenoweth was a member of the Republican Party and was established in 1940 as their candidate in the third district of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat William E. Burney on January 3, 1941. After he was re-elected in each of the following three congressional elections, Chenoweth could remain until January 3, 1949 in Congress. In 1948, he was defeated by Democrat John H. Marsalis, but he already beat in the next Congressional elections in 1950 again, which he regained his seat in Congress. After he was re-elected six times, Chenoweth was able to complete between January 1951 and January 3, 1965 3 seven coherent legislative sessions in the House of Representatives. The elections of 1964, he then lost against Frank E. Evans.

After the end of his time as a congressman John Chenoweth again practiced as a lawyer in Trinidad, where he died in January 1986.