John Taber

John Taber ( born May 5, 1880 in Auburn, New York, † November 22, 1965 ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1963 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Taber attended the public schools of his home. In 1902 he graduated from Yale University. After a subsequent study of law at New York Law School and his 1904 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Auburn in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1905 and 1906 he was Provincial in Cayuga County; 1910 to 1918 he was a judge at the local district court. In the years 1920, 1924 and 1936, he participated as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant. From 1920 to 1925 he was district chairman of the Republicans in Cayuga County. In 1922, he also served as president of the local Chamber of Commerce.

In the congressional elections of 1922, Taber was the 36th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Norman J. Gould on March 4, 1923. After 19 re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1963 a total of 20 legislative periods. Between 1947 and 1949, and again from 1953 to 1955 he was chairman of the Appropriations Committee. During his time in Congress, the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there were adopted between 1933 and 1945, which Taber's party faced a rather negative. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends or begins on January 3. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. In Taber's time in Congress were also the beginning of the Cold War, the Korean War and domestic politics, the civil rights movement.

In 1962, John Taber gave up another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in Auburn, where he died on 22 November 1965.