Otis Wingo

Otis Theodore Wingo ( born June 18, 1877 Weakley County, Tennessee; † 21 October 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1930 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, Otis Wingo attended Bethel College in McKenzie (Tennessee ) and the McFerrin College in Martin, also in Tennessee. He then studied at Valparaiso University in Indiana. He subsequently worked as a teacher and studied law. After his made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in the town of De Queen in Sevier County, Arkansas.

Politically Wingo was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1907 and 1909 he was a member of the Senate from Arkansas. In the congressional elections of 1912 he was in the fourth district of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he replaced William B. Cravens on March 4, 1913. After a total of eight elections he remained until his death on October 21, 1930 in Congress. In this time were, among others, the First World War, the introduction of women's suffrage at the federal level and the Prohibition law. Otis Wingo was buried in Washington on the Rock Creek Cemetery. His mandate went to a by-election to his widow Effiegene that it exercised between November 4, 1930 and March 3, 1933.