Ray P. Chase

Ray Park Chase ( born March 12, 1880 Anoka County, Minnesota, † September 18, 1948 in Anoka, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ray Chase attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1903, the University of Minnesota. Between 1904 and 1914 he worked as a printer and publisher; 1916 to 1920 he was deputy auditor and land commissioner of the state government of Minnesota. After studying law at St. Paul College of Law, he was admitted in 1919 as a lawyer. However, he was not working at that time in this profession. Meanwhile, Chase State was 1921-1931 continue State auditor and land commissioner.

Politically, Chase member of the Republican Party. In 1930 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Minnesota; he lost to Floyd B. Olson of the Farmer-Labor Party. In the congressional elections of 1932, which were exceptionally held all across the state, he was for the second seat from Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frank Clague on March 4, 1933. Since he was not nominated in 1934 by his party for another legislative session, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. In this period has been revoked by the 21th Amendment to the Constitution of the 18th Amendment in 1919. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages, known as Prohibition Act.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Ray Chase worked 1935-1943 as a lawyer. He specialized in legal issues in the field of research. Between 1944 and 1948, Chase was a member of the railroad and warehouse commission ( Railroad and Warehouse Commission) of the State of Minnesota. He died on 18 September 1948 in Akona.

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