John E. Raker

John Edward Raker (* February 22, 1863 in Knoxville, Knox County, Illinois, † January 22, 1926 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1926 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1873, John Raker moved with his parents in the Lassen County in California, where he attended the public schools. Between 1882 and 1884 he graduated from the State Normal School in San Jose. After a subsequent law degree in 1885 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Susanville in this profession. In December 1886 he moved to Alturas. Between 1895 and 1899 acted Raker as District Attorney in Modoc County; 1903 to 1910 he was a judge in the same district. Politically, Raker member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1908-1910 he was the Chairman of State in California. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver in part, was nominated on the William Jennings Bryan for the third time as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1910 Raker was elected in the first district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William F. Englebright on March 4, 1911. After seven elections he could remain until his death on 22 January 1926 at the Congress. Since 1913 he represented there as a follower of William Kent the second district of his state. In his time as a congressman of the First World War and the ratification of constitutional amendments 16 to 19 of 1917 fell to 1919 he headed the committee to control the expenditure of the Department of Justice. At the same time he was also the committee for the introduction of women's suffrage.