John Conover Nichols

John Conover Nichols ( born August 31, 1896 in Joplin, Missouri, † November 7, 1945 in Asmara, Eritrea ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1943 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Nichols attended the public schools of his native Missouri and Colorado Springs. He also graduated from the Teachers College in Emporia (Kansas). Between 1917 and 1919 he took as an infantry soldier in the U.S. Army in the First World War. After studying law and his 1926 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Eufaula (Oklahoma).

Politically Nichols was a member of the Democratic Party, as its candidate he was in 1934 elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. There he broke on January 3, 1935 from William W. Hastings. Since he also won the next four elections, he was able to exercise until his resignation on July 3, 1943 from his position in Congress. His resignation was because he had been appointed vice-president of the airline, Transcontinental & Western Air Inc.. This office he held until his death in November 1945 in a plane crash in the city was still under British administration of Eritrea. Nichols was buried there also provisional. Later his remains were transferred to Eufaula and buried there again.