Joseph R. Knowland

Joseph Russell Knowland (* August 5, 1873 in Alameda, California, † February 1, 1966 in Piedmont, California ) was an American politician. Between 1904 and 1915 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Knowland attended both public and private schools and then studied at the College of the Pacific in Stockton. In the following years he worked in the factories of his father in the timber trade. He was also a director of the American Trust Co. At the same time he began as a member of the Republican Party a political career. Between 1898 and 1902 he was a deputy in the California State Assembly; 1902 to 1904 he was a member of the State Senate.

After the resignation of the Cabinet Roosevelt appointed deputies Victor H. Metcalf Knowland was at the due election for the third seat from California as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 8 November 1904. After four elections he could remain until March 3, 1915 at the Congress. Since 1913 he represented there as a successor to James C. Needham sixth electoral district of his state. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

1914 Joseph Knowland ran for the U.S. Senate, but lost to James D. Phelan. He then joined in the newspaper business. Since 1915, he led the Oakland Tribune. Between 1936 and 1960 he was chairman of the California State Park Commission, which dealt with the management of state natural parks of California. In 1950, he stood before the Commission on the 100 - year celebration of the accession of his native country to the United States. Knowland spent his life in Piedmont, where he died on 1 February 1966. He was buried in Oakland. His son William (1908-1974) was from 1945 to 1959 to the U.S. Senate.