Robert L. Ramsay (politician)
Robert Lincoln Ramsay ( born March 24, 1877 in County Durham, England; † November 14, 1956 in Wheeling, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1953 he represented three times the first electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
In 1881 Robert Ramsay came with his parents to the United States. The family settled in New Cumberland, Hancock County, West Virginia down. There, the boy attended the public schools. After a subsequent law degree from West Virginia University in Morgantown and his 1901 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in New Cumberland. In 1905 he moved his residence and his practice according to Wellsburg in Brooke County. Between 1905 and 1930 he was attorney for the neighboring community of Follansbee. In the years 1908 to 1912 and again from 1916 to 1920 was Ramsay district attorney in Brooke County. From 1927 to 1930 he was a member of the Board of West Virginia University.
Ramsay was a member of the Democratic Party and was founded in 1932 as the candidate in the first district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1933, the succession of Republican Carl G. Bachmann, whom he had defeated in the election. In his election victory Ramsay benefited from a nationwide trend in favor of his party, which the U.S. president culminated with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. After two re- election he was able to complete in 1939 three contiguous legislatures in Congress until January 3, during which most of the New Deal legislation was passed. In addition, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution were discussed and adopted. This on the one hand, the beginning and the end of the legislative sessions of both the Congress and the President were revised and the other lifted in 1919, introduced by the 18th Amendment prohibition of alcohol.
In the 1938 elections, he was defeated by Republican AC Schiffler, who then exercised Ramsay's previous mandate for a legislative period. During this time, Ramsay again worked as a lawyer. But he could beat Schiffler, win back his old seat in Congress and spend another term in Congress January 3, 1941 to January 3, 1943 already in the next elections in 1940. In this time of American entry into the Second World War, fell as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. In the 1942 elections, there was again a duel with C. A. Schiffler, who won this. Thereby displaced Schiffler Ramsay a second time from the Congress.
Between 1943 and 1945, Ramsay worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1945 to 1948 he was Deputy Attorney General of West Virginia. 1948 Ramsay was elected one more time in the Congress. There he graduated after a re-election in 1950 between January 1949 and January 3, 1953 3 two other legislative periods. In this time the 22nd Amendment, which regulated the terms of office of the President fell. For the elections of 1952 he was not nominated by his party. His mandate then went to his party colleague Bob Mollohan.
After the end of his time in Congress Robert Ramsay again worked as a lawyer. From 1952 to 1956 he was a deputy district attorney. He died on 14 November 1956 in Wheeling and was buried in Follansbee.