Lloyd Thurston

Lloyd Thurston ( born March 27, 1880 in Osceola, Clark County, Iowa; † May 7, 1970 in Des Moines, Iowa) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1939 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lloyd Thurston attended the public schools of his home. After that he took as a soldier of an infantry unit on the Spanish-American War of 1898 in part. He was employed in the Philippines. He remained there until November 1899. After studying law at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and its made in 1902 admitted to the bar he began in Osceola to work in his new profession. Between 1902 and 1906 he was also captain of the National Guard of Iowa. From 1906 to 1910 Thurston worked as a district attorney in Clark County. During the First World War he was a captain in the U.S. Army. But He was not used in Europe. Politically, Thurston member of the Republican Party. Between 1920 and 1924 he sat in the Senate of Iowa.

In 1924 he was in the eighth constituency of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1925, the successor of Hiram Kinsman Evans. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 seven legislative sessions. Since 1933, he represented, however, succeeding Cyrenus Cole fifth district of Iowa. During this time, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution were discussed and adopted. In the 1930s, Thurston supported at least some, but not all New Deal legislation of the Federal Government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During his time in Congress, he was temporarily a member of the House Committee on Rules, the Budget Committee and the Committee on Ways and Means.

In 1938, Lloyd Thurston gave up another run for the House of Representatives. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. After he retired from politics and resumed the lawyer. Thurston died in May 1970 90 -year-old in Des Moines and was buried in Osceola.

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