Thomas H. Werdel

Thomas Harold Werdel (* September 13, 1905 in Emery, Hanson County, South Dakota, † September 30, 1966 in Bakersfield, California ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1953 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1915, Thomas Werdel came with his parents in the Kern County, California, where he attended the public schools, including the Kern County Union High School. Then he studied until 1930 at the University of California at Berkeley. After a subsequent law degree from the same university in 1936 and was admitted to his lawyer, he began to work in Bakersfield in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1943 and 1945, he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly. In the congressional elections of 1948 Werdel was in the tenth constituency of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Alfred J. Elliott on January 3, 1949. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1953 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Cold War and the Korean War.

In 1952 Werdel was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1956, he competed as a running mate by T. Coleman Andrews in the presidential election for the office of Vice-President. The two candidates of the States ' Rights Party came to 108 055 votes, representing a share of 0.17 percent and meant to third place behind the victorious Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Democratic challenger Adlai Stevenson. Thomas Werdel died on September 30, 1966 in Bakersfield.