Virgil Chapman

Virgil Munday Chapman ( born March 15, 1895 in Middleton, Simpson County, Kentucky; † March 8, 1951 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Kentucky in both chambers of Congress.

Life

After attending school in Franklin Virgil Chapman studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1917; the following year he graduated from the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He first worked as a lawyer in Irvine, where he was from 1918 to 1920, the Office of the Prosecutor had held before he moved to Paris. Between 1921 and 1923 he helped with a lawyer to unite the tobacco planters from Kentucky and surrounding states in marketing cooperatives. With his wife Mary Virgil Chapman had a daughter.

Policy

1924, the Democrat Chapman was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he first spent two terms. In the election of 1928, when Republican Herbert Hoover was U.S. President and his party won a landslide victory, Chapman lost his mandate. However, two years later he sat down to Republican Robert E. Lee Blackburn, who had defeated him before, through and remained thereafter for four more years as a representative of the seventh district of Kentucky in the House of Representatives. In 1935, he joined as a contestant in the sixth election district, won the seat there and defended it until 1949.

In the election to the U.S. Senate in 1948, Virgil Chapman defeated the Republican incumbent John Sherman Cooper. His successor in the House of Representatives, Thomas R. Underwood. However, Chapman already died on 8 March 1951 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda at the consequences of a car accident he had recently suffered in Washington. In the Senate, Thomas Underwood his mandate. Thus Virgil Chapman is one of those six members of Congress, which nachfolgten respectively, the same persons in both chambers.