Milton C. Garber

Milton Cline Garber ( born November 30, 1867 in Humboldt, Humboldt County, California, † September 12, 1948 in Alexandria, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the eighth election district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Milton Garber grew up on a farm in Iowa. He attended local public schools and then 1887-1890 the Upper Iowa University in Fayette. Between 1891 and 1893 he studied law at the University of Iowa. After his 1893 was admitted as a lawyer to Garber settled in the Cherokee Strip in the former Oklahoma Territory. In the village of Guthrie, he then began to practice as a lawyer.

Together with his father and brother he founded the place Garber, where the family then founded the country's oil fields. Since 1902 Garber judge was on probate in Garfield County. In 1906 he became an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court in Oklahoma Territory and criminal judge in the fifth judicial district. After the founding of the state of Oklahoma was Milton Garber 1908-1912 judge in the Twelfth Judicial District. He then worked as a lawyer.

Politically Milton Garber was a member of the Republican Party. From 1919 to 1921 he was mayor of the city of Enid. At that time he also worked in the newspaper business and in agriculture. 1922 Garber was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Manuel Herrick on March 4, 1923. After he was confirmed in each case at the next elections, he was able to complete up to March 3, 1933 a total of five legislative sessions in Congress. In the 1932 elections, he was defeated by Democrat Ernest Marland. This election result was then in the national trend, which the U.S. president culminated with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After his time in Congress Milton Garber retired from politics and returned to his private affairs. He died on September 12, 1948 in Alexandria, and was buried in Enid.