Joseph I. France

Joseph Irwin France ( born October 11, 1873 in Cameron, Clinton County, Missouri, † January 26, 1939 in Port Deposit, Maryland ) was an American politician of the Republican Party, who represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. Senate.

Life

After attending school graduate France in 1895 at Hamilton College in Clinton (New York). Subsequently, he studied intermittently at the University of Leipzig, before he graduated from the medical faculty of Clark University in Worcester (Massachusetts ).

In 1897 he began working as a science teacher at a university in Port Deposit. Later he announced there to visit the physically -surgical College in Baltimore. After his graduation in 1903 he worked as a doctor. 1908 France went into the financial industry. From 1916 to 1917 he was head of the medical-surgical faculty of Maryland.

Policy

From 1906 to 1908 Joseph France was a member of the Senate of Maryland. He laid down his mandate, to focus on his career, and returned in 1916 back on the political stage when he was elected to the U.S. Senate. He was chairman of the Committee on Public Health. In the 1922 election, he defeated Democrat William Cabell Bruce.

This defeat was followed by a decade in which he focused on his work as president of an insurance company and the work as a doctor. Politically entered France again in 1932 in appearance, when he ran as an opposition candidate of U.S. President Herbert Hoover in the Republican primary. Although he won in some states, but at the Republican National Convention, he suffered a clear defeat.

1934 Finally, he wanted to return to the Senate. But the race for the seat of retiring Phillips Lee Goldsborough won his Democratic opponent George Radcliffe.