John Mills Houston

John Mills Houston ( born September 15, 1890, Formosa, Jewell County, Kansas, † April 29, 1975 in Laguna Beach, California ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1943 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Houston was born on a farm near Formosa. He attended the public schools in Wichita, the St. John's Military School in Salina and then the Fairmount University in Wichita. Between 1912 and 1917 he worked in the theater business. During the First World War he was a soldier of the U.S. Marine Corps. From 1919 to 1934 he was in Newton in the wood business.

Houston was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1927 and 1931 he was mayor of Newton, and from 1934 to 1935, he served as Secretary on the board of his party in Kansas. In 1934 he was in the fifth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he took over on January 3, 1935 the seat, the William Augustus Ayres had held to 22 August 1934. After three elections Houston was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1943 four legislative sessions. His last term was determined by the events of the Second World War. In the 1942 elections, he was defeated by Republican Clifford R. Hope.

Between 1943 and 1953, Houston was a member of the National Committee for employment ( National Board on Labor Relations ). After his resignation on 27 August 1953, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 1975.