Noble Jones Gregory

Noble Jones Gregory ( born August 30, 1897 in Mayfield, Kentucky, † September 26, 1971 ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1959 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Noble Gregory was the younger brother of William Voris Gregory (1877-1936), who represented 1927-1936 the state of Kentucky in Congress. The younger Gregory attended both private and public schools. After he graduated in 1915, the Mayfield High School. He then finished his education at the Mayfield Business College. Between 1917 and 1936, Gregory worked in various positions at First National Bank of Mayfield. Between 1923 and 1936 he was also treasurer of the school board of this city.

Politically, Gregory member of the Democratic Party. In advance of the midterm elections of 1936, his brother William was originally for another legislative session in Washington DC nominated. But He died on 10 October of the same year, even before the election. Noble Gregory was then nominated in place of his brother and elected in the first district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he came into effect on January 3, 1937 at its new mandate. After ten elections he could until January 3, 1959 eleven consecutive parliamentary terms in Congress absolvieren.Während his time still more New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were in Congress there passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt until 1941. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. In his time as an MP were also the beginning of the Cold War, the Korean War and domestic politics, the civil rights movement. While Gregory's term of office was ratified the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution in 1951, the first time definitely fixed the term of office of the President.

1958 Noble Gregory was not nominated by his party for another term. In the following years he worked in the banking industry and in the investment industry. He died on 26 September 1971 in his birthplace Mayfield.