Maurice Thatcher

Maurice Hudson Thatcher ( born August 15, 1870 in Chicago, Illinois, † January 6, 1973 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was also from 1910 to 1913 Governor of the Panama Canal Zone.

Career

Already moved in 1874 Maurice Thatcher with his family in the Butler County in Kentucky, where they settled near the city of Morgantown. There he attended private and public schools. Later he worked in agriculture and in the newspaper business. He also held several local offices in the district administration. In 1892 he was bailiff at the District Court in Butler County. After studying law and his 1898 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Frankfort in this profession.

Between 1898 and 1900, Thatcher was Deputy Attorney General of Kentucky. In 1900 he moved to Louisville. From 1901 to 1906 Thatcher served as Deputy Attorney General for the Western Kentucky. He then worked 1908-1910 as a state inspector and examiner for the state government of Kentucky. He was also a member of the Commission for the Panama Canal. From 1910 to 1913 he was military governor of the Canal Zone. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again in Louisville. In the years 1917 to 1919, during the First World War, he was a member of the security committee of the city of Louisville. After that, he was from 1919 to 1923 beraterisch worked as Department counsel for the state government of Kentucky.

Thatcher was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1922, he was selected in the fifth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Charles F. Ogden on March 4, 1923. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 4, 1933 five legislative sessions. Since 1929 the work of the Congress of the Great Depression was marked. Near the end of his last term of office of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, by the start of legislative sessions of Congress and the terms of office of the President from March has been brought forward to January.

In 1932, Thatcher abandoned in favor of a then failed bid for the U.S. Senate to further candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. He then worked again as a lawyer. Between 1939 and 1969 he was Vice President and Advisor to the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventative Medicine; after which he was honorary president of this institute. Maurice Thatcher died on 6 January 1973 at the age of 102 years in Washington. He was born in Frankfort, capital of Kentucky, buried.