Virginia E. Jenckes

Virginia Ellis Jenckes ( born November 6, 1877 in Terre Haute, Indiana; † January 9, 1975 ibid ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1939, she represented the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Virginia Ellis Somes, so her maiden name, attended the public schools of their home and began in 1912 to work in agriculture. Between 1926 and 1926 she served on the board of the Wabash Maumee Valley Improvement Association. At the same time she began a career in politics as a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1932 it was the sixth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they on March 4, 1933, the successor of William Larrabee took, who joined in the eleventh district. Their election victory was quite the then Federal trend in favor of the Democratic Party. After two re- elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 three legislative periods. During this time most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1933 was repealed with the 21st Amendment to the Constitution of the 18th Amendment in 1919 again. It was about the Prohibition law. 1937 Virginia Jenckes delegates to the Assembly of the Inter -Parliamentary Union in Paris. In 1938, she was not re-elected.

After her retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Jenckes remained for many years in the federal capital, where she worked for the American Red Cross. It was not until the early 1970s, she returned to Terre Haute. There she died on January 9, 1975 at the age of 97 years.