L. M. Gensman

Lorraine Michael Gensman (* August 26, 1878 in Wichita, Kansas, † May 27, 1954 in Lawton, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gensman attended the district schools of his home and then the Garden Plain Graded School, the Wichita Commercial College, the Lewis Academy and the Kansas State Normal School. In 1896 and 1897 he was even in the teaching profession and taught in Andale (Kansas) as a teacher.

After studying law at the University of Kansas and his 1901 was admitted as a lawyer in Lawrence Gensman began to work in his new profession. In the year 1901 he moved to Lawton in Oklahoma Territory. Between 1902 and 1907 he was a bankruptcy judge in his new home, and from 1918 to 1919 he was District Attorney in Comanche County.

LM Gensman was a member of the Republican Party. In 1920 he was in the sixth district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he replaced Scott Ferris on March 4, 1921. Because it did not re-elected in 1922, Gensman was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1923.

In 1924 Gensman was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, was nominated to the President Calvin Coolidge for a second term. In 1936 he applied unsuccessfully for a return to Congress. Otherwise, he worked as a lawyer and in the oil industry. In 1953 he retired from business life in retirement back. He died the following year in Lawton and was buried there.