John Lloyd Dorsey, Jr.

John Lloyd Dorsey ( born August 10, 1891 in Henderson, Kentucky, † March 22, 1960 ) was an American politician. In the years 1930 and 1931, he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Dorsey attended the common schools and the Bethel College in Russellville. Then he studied until 1912 at Centre College in Danville. After a subsequent law degree, which he also graduated at Centre College, and his 1913 was admitted as a lawyer, he started in Henderson to work in this profession. During the First World War he was a soldier in 1918 at the headquarters of a brigade of the U.S. Army.

Politically, Dorsey member of the Democratic Party. Between 1920 and 1824 he was a member of the Board of his party. In the years 1926 and 1930 he was city attorney in Henderson. Following the resignation of Mr David Hayes Kincheloe he was in the necessary by-election in the second electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 4 November 1930. Since he did not stand in the regular congressional elections of 1930, he could only finish the opened term of his predecessor until March 3, 1931.

In the following years until his death in 1960, Dorsey again practiced as a lawyer. Between 1936 and 1937 he was also once a legal representative of the community Henderson.