Lindley Beckworth

Lindley Garrison Beckworth, Sr. (* June 30, 1913 in Mabank, Kaufman County, Texas, † March 9, 1984 in Tyler, Texas) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1939 and 1953, and again from 1957 to 1967, he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

Lindley Beckworth attended the public schools of his home and following various colleges and the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He then worked for three years as a teacher in Upshur County. After a subsequent law degree from Baylor University and the University of Texas at Austin and his 1937 was admitted to the bar he began in Gilmer to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1936 to 1938 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1938 Beckworth was the third electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Morgan G. Sanders on January 3, 1939. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1953 seven legislative sessions. By 1941 there more 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 and its aftermath was marked.

In 1952 Beckworth opted not to run again. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. He then worked as an attorney in Longview. In the 1956 elections, he was re-elected in the third district of his state in Congress. After four elections he could spend between January 1957 and January 3, 1967 3 in place of Brady P. Gentry five further terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this time of the peak of the civil rights movement, the Cold War and the war in Vietnam fell. 1966 Beckworth has not been nominated by his party for re-election.

In the years 1967 to 1968 Lindley Beckworth federal judge was on duty court (United States Customs Court ) in New York City. He then practiced as a lawyer again. He died on March 9, 1984 in Tyler, where he was also buried.