John M. Morin

John Mary Morin ( born April 18, 1868 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † March 3, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1929 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his childhood, John Morin moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, where he attended the public schools. In 1882 he began to work in a glass factory. After that he worked until 1885 in the steel industry. In 1889 he moved to Missoula in Montana, where he worked in the trade. In addition, he attended evening classes at the local until 1892 Haskins ' Business College. Later Morin returned to Pittsburgh, where he went into the hotel industry. Since 1910 he was director of the Company Washington Trust Co. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1904 and 1906 he sat in the City Council of Pittsburgh; 1905 to 1912 he was a delegate in part to the regional party days of the Republicans in Pennsylvania. He was also from 1909 to 1913 Head of the Department of Public Safety of the city.

In the congressional elections of 1912 was Morin in the then newly established state-wide 33 electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1913. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1929 eight legislatures. Between 1915 and 1923 he represented there as a successor of James F. Burke 31 and then the 34th district of his state. From 1925 to 1929 he headed the Military Committee. During his time in Congress, the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages as well as the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. Already in 1913, the 16th and the 17th Amendment was ratified. They were concerned with the nationwide introduction of the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators.

1928 John Morin has not been nominated by his party for re-election. In the same year he became a member of the Federal Authority United States Employees Compensation Commission, which dealt with work loss compensation. He held until his death on March 3, 1942 at the Naval Hospital in Baltimore this feature. He was buried in Pittsburgh.