Richard Pillsbury Gale

Richard Pillsbury Gale ( born October 30, 1900 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, † December 4, 1973 ) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1945 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Gale first attended the public schools in his hometown of Minneapolis. Then he was at the Blake School in Hopkins and the Minnesota Farm School. He then continued his education with courses at the University of Minnesota and Yale University, where he completed his training in 1922. Thereafter, he worked in agriculture.

Politically, Gale member of the Republican Party. In the years 1939 and 1940 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Minnesota. He was also for eight years a member of the School Committee of the City Mound as well as curator of the Blake School. In the congressional elections of 1940, Gale was in the third electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John G. Alexander on January 3, 1941. After a re-election in 1942, he was able to complete in Congress, which were largely determined by the events of World War II until January 3, 1945 two legislative sessions.

In the 1944 elections Gale lost to William Gallagher. In the following years he wrote newspaper articles about the social, economic and political life of many nations. At the same time, he was again engaged in farming. He lived on his farm near Mound. Richard Gale died on December 4, 1973 in his hometown of Minneapolis, where he was also buried.