Pat Cannon

Arthur Patrick " Pat" Cannon ( May 22nd, 1904 in Powder Springs, Cobb County, Georgia, † January 23, 1966 in Miami, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1947 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Still in its infancy drew Pat Cannon with his parents in the Laurens County, South Carolina, where he attended the public schools. He then completed the Wofford College in Spartanburg and the Stetson University in DeLand. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Miami and its made ​​in 1931 Admitted to the bar he began in Miami to work in his new profession.

Politically Cannon was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1938 he was in the fourth electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of J. Mark Wilcox on January 3, 1939. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1947 four legislative sessions. There, until 1941, further New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted. Since 1941 was the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and then shaped by its consequences.

1946 Cannon was nominated by his party not multipart for re-election. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. Since 1952 he was a district judge in Dade County. He died on January 23, 1966 in Miami, where he was also buried.