Percy Lee Gassaway

Percy Lee Gassaway ( born August 30, 1885 in Waco, Texas, † May 15, 1937 in Coalgate, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1899, Percy Gassaway moved with his parents to Fort Sill in the Indian Territory of the former Oklahoma Territory. There and in Oklahoma City, he attended the public schools; thereafter he was an administrative clerk at a law firm. According to its own law studies and his 1918 was admitted to the bar he began in Coalgate to work in his new profession. He has also worked in agriculture.

Between 1923 and 1926 Gassaway was District Judge in Coal County, and from 1926 to 1934 he was a judge in the 26th Judicial District. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In the 1934 elections he was elected in the fourth district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he replaced Thomas D. McKeown on 3 January 1935. Since he was not nominated in 1936 by his party for re-election, Percy Gassaway was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1937. After the end of his political career Gassaway again worked as a lawyer and rancher. However, it remained to him only a few months since he passed away in May 1937.