Vance Plauche

Vance Gabriel Plauche ( born August 25, 1897 in Plaucheville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, † April 2, 1976 in Lake Charles, Louisiana ) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1943 he represented the state of Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Vance Plauche attended both private and public schools. By the year 1914 he was at St. Francis Xavier's College. Then he studied until 1918 at Loyola University in New Orleans. At the end of the First World War, he was employed for a short time as a soldier in a hospital in Italy. After studying law and its made ​​in 1918 admitted to the bar he began in Lake Charles to work in his new profession. Between 1928 and 1932 he was there -city lawyer. In the years 1933 to 1935, he served as a district advisor to the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. In 1940 he was a member of the Civil Service Commission of the State of Louisiana, which addressed matters of public service.

Politically, Plauche member of the Democratic Party. In 1940 he was a delegate to the regional convention in Louisiana. In the congressional elections of 1940 was Plauche in the seventh election district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of René L. De Rouen on 3 January 1941. Since he decided not to run again in 1942, he was able to complete up to January 3, 1943, only a term in Congress, which was determined by the events of World War II.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Vance Plauche worked again as a lawyer in a large law firm, where he was involved. He was a member of the American Bar Association and a number of veterans organizations. Plauche died on April 2, 1976 in Lake Charles. Since 1923 he was married to Marie Amirs Bush. The marriage comes from a 1924 -born son, Vance William Plauche, who in 1968 competed as a Republican to the former seat of his father in Congress, with only 15 percent of the vote but clearly the Democratic incumbent Edwin Edwards was defeated.