Samuel H. Young

Samuel Hollingsworth Young ( born December 26, 1922 in Casey, Clark County, Illinois ) is a former American politician. Between 1973 and 1975 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Young visited until 1940, the Urbana High School. During the Second World War he was 1943-1946 paratrooper in the U.S. Army. He rose to become captain. In the years 1947 and 1948 he taught at the University of Illinois economics. After studying law at the same university and his 1948 was admitted as a lawyer in Chicago, he started to work in this profession. In this capacity, he also worked for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. In the years 1949 and 1950, Young held at Northwestern University lectures. From 1953 to 1955 he was a security officer of the State of Illinois; between 1955 to 1957 he held the position of Assistant Secretary of State. He was also Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of the Hospital Supply Company, a company for the purchase of hospital equipment goods.

Politically, Young joined the Republican Party. From 1951 to 1973 he was a delegate at all regional party conferences of the Republicans in Illinois. In the congressional elections of 1972 he was in the tenth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Harold R. Collier on January 3, 1973. Since he has not been confirmed in 1974, he was able to complete up to January 3, 1975, only a term in Congress, which was overshadowed by the Watergate affair. This cost in 1974, many Republican congressman 's re-election.

In 1976, Samuel Young competed unsuccessfully for his return to the Congress. After that, he is no longer politically have appeared. End of his life he spent alternately in Glenview and Marco Iceland (Florida ).