Reva Beck Bosone

Reva Zilpha Beck bosons ( born April 2, 1895 in American Fork, Utah; † July 21, 1983 in Vienna, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1953, she represented the second electoral district of the state of Utah in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years and political rise

Reva bosons attended the public schools of their home and then to 1917, the Westminster Junior College. This was followed up in 1919 to study at the University of California at Berkeley ( California). Between 1920 and 1927 bosons worked as a high school teacher. She then studied until 1930 at the University of Utah law. Once admitted as a lawyer she practiced from 1931 to 1933 in Helper in Carbon County, and from 1933 to 1936 in Salt Lake City.

Bosons was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1933 and 1935 she was a Member of the House of Representatives from Utah and 1935, Group Head of MEP. From 1936 to 1948 she was a judge in Salt Lake City. During the Second World War, she was also chair of the Women 's Army Corps Civilian Advisory Committee. In 1945, she served as an official observer for the founding meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco. In the years 1947 and 1948 Reva bosons initiated addition to their judges activity nor a committee of the government of Utah, which dealt with alcoholism.

Congressman

In 1948 she was elected for the second electoral district of Utah in the U.S. House of Representatives. There it began on January 3, 1949 the succession of Republican William A. Dawson. After a re-election in 1950, she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1953 two legislative sessions. In the elections of 1952 they defeated Dawson, who thus could take his old seat back. Two years later, in 1954, she lost in a renewed bid against Dawson.

Even after the end of their political activity in Congress Reva bosons remained politically active. In the years 1952 and 1956 she was delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. From 1957 to 1960 she was a legal adviser of a sub-committee in Congress, which dealt with questions of education and labor. Finally, she was employed from 1961 to 1968 as a lawyer at the Ministry of Postal Services. Then she withdrew into retirement, she spent in Virginia. There she is also deceased in 1983.