John F. Nugent

John Frost Nugent ( born June 28, 1868 in La Grande, Union County, Oregon, † September 18, 1931 in Silver Spring, Maryland ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Idaho in the U.S. Senate.

John Nugent worked after leaving school, first as a miner in Idaho and in Australia. After his return to the U.S., he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1898 and opened a practice in Silver City. From 1899 to 1906 he held the office of the prosecutor in Owyhee County.

In January 1918, Nugent was appointed by Idaho Governor Moses Alexander as successor to the late U.S. Senator James H. Brady. In the by-election in November of the same year he won against the former Governor Frank Gooding and would therefore Bradys to March 1921 can end permanent tenure completely. However, he resigned in January 1921 from the Senate after he lost the election for its own term of office against Gooding. Nugent took on an appeal by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in the Federal Trade Commission and handed their mandate prior to Gooding.

1926 Nugent took again an attempt to be elected to the Senate. However, it did not only lost against Gooding, but even finished behind HF Samuels of the Progressive party only the third place. So that his political career was over; He then worked only as a lawyer in Washington.