Marion De Vries

Marion De Vries ( born August 15, 1865 Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, California, † September 11, 1939 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1897 and 1900 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

Marion De Vries attended the common schools and the San Joaquin College, which he completed in 1886. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his 1887 was admitted to the bar he began in Stockton to work in this profession. Between 1893 and 1897 he was a deputy district attorney in San Joaquin County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1896 De Vries was in the second electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Grove L. Johnson on March 4, 1897. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on August 20, 1900 in Congress. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

The resignation of De Vries took place after his appointment to a judicial position. Between 1900 and 1910 he was a member of the Advisory Committee on Customs Court in New York City. Since 1906 he was its chairman. From 1910 to 1922 officiated De Vries as a judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for customs matters (United States Court of Customs Appeals ). Thereafter, he practiced in Washington and New York as a lawyer. He died on September 11, 1939 on his ranch near Woodbridge.