Marcellus H. Evans

Marcellus Hugh Evans ( born September 22, 1884 in Brooklyn, New York, † November 21, 1953 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1935 and 1941 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Marcellus Hugh Evans was about four months after the Alaska received a civil administration and the District of Alaska renamed, born in the then still independent city of Brooklyn and grew up there. During this time he attended the St. John the Baptist School and St. James Academy. In 1910 he graduated from the law faculty of Fordham University. His admission to the bar he received in 1910 and then began practicing in Brooklyn. Between 1922 and 1926 he sat in the New York State Assembly and 1927-1934 in the Senate from New York.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1934 he was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Loring M. Black Jr. on January 4, 1935. He was re-elected twice. In 1940 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after January 3, 1941, the Congress of. After that, he ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the 77th Congress.

After the end of his last term, he resumed his activities as a lawyer. He died on 21 November 1953 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Long Iceland City.