Raymond S. McKeough

Raymond Stephen McKeough ( born April 29, 1888 in Chicago, Illinois, † December 16, 1979 ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1943 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Raymond McKeough attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1895, the De La Salle Institute, also in Chicago. Between 1905 and 1909 he worked at the Union Stockyards, where the produced in slaughterhouses meat was packaged and delivered. From 1909 to 1925 he was employed by a railroad company. From 1925 to 1934 he was also involved in the investment industry and in the equities business. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In July 1940 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated to the President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the second re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1934 McKeough was in the second electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of PH Moynihan on 3 January 1935. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 four legislative sessions. By 1941 there more New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In 1942, Raymond McKeough gave up another run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate, but was defeated by Republican incumbent Charles W. Brooks. Between February 1943 and January 1944 he was employed by the Office of Price Administration in Chicago. Between 1945 and 1950 he was a member of the United States Maritime Commission; 1951 to 1953 he was Federal Commissioner for International claims (International Claims Commission of the United States ). In 1956, he worked in Chicago for the company Great American Oil Co. Between 1956 and 1960 he worked in the administration of the criminal prosecutor's office of Chicago. Then he withdrew into retirement. Raymond McKeough died on 16 December 1979.

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