John H. Marsalis

John Henry Marsalis ( born May 9, 1904 in McComb, Mississippi, † June 26, 1971 in Pueblo, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1951 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Marsalis attended schools in McComb and in 1922 moved with his parents to Colorado Springs. But in the years 1925 and 1926, he returned to study at the University of Mississippi. Later he studied at the University of Colorado law. After his made ​​in 1935 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Pueblo. From 1935 to 1936 he also worked as an investigator for the district attorney. During the Second World War was Marsalis soldier of the U.S. Army, where he served for weather forecast in one unit.

After the war, Marsalis was 1945-1948 District Attorney in the Tenth Judicial District of Colorado. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1948 he was in the third district of Colorado against the Republican incumbent John Chenoweth in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. But since he already lost in the following elections in 1950 against Chenoweth and to which it has won back his old seat, Marsalis was able to complete only one term in Congress between January 1949 and January 3, 1951 3. In 1952 he failed in a further bid.

After the end of his time in Congress, he again worked as a lawyer. Between 1954 and 1962 he was a judge in the Tenth Judicial District of Colorado. Then he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Pueblo. There he is also deceased in June 1971.

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