Laurence F. Arnold

Laurence Fletcher Arnold ( born June 8, 1891 in Newton, Jasper County, Illinois, † December 6, 1966 ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1943 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Laurence Arnold attended the common schools and studied at the University of Chicago after that. He also completed a law degree. From 1916 he worked in Newton in the banking industry as well as a dealer in hay and grain. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1923 and 1927, and again from 1933 to 1937 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois. In 1924 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part in New York, was nominated for the John W. Davis as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1936, Arnold was the 23rd electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of unrelated with him William W. Arnold on January 3, 1937. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 three legislative periods. By 1941, there the last of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In 1942, Arnold was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he took his previous activities on again. He was also president of Peoples State Bank. In 1950 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died on December 6, 1966 in his hometown of Newton.