Wesley E. Disney

Wesley Ernest Disney ( born October 31, 1883 in Richland, Shawnee County, Kansas, † March 26, 1961 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1945 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Wesley Disney attended the public schools in Kansas, and then studied at the Law Faculty of the University of Kansas law. After his made ​​in 1906 admitted to the bar he began in Muskogee (Oklahoma) to work in his new profession.

Disney became a member of the Democratic Party. From 1911 to 1915 he was district attorney in Muskogee County and 1919-1924 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Oklahoma. During the impeachment of Governor Jack Walton in 1923 he was chairman of the negotiating committee (Board of Managers ).

1930 Disney was elected in the first district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Charles O'Connor on March 4, 1931. After he was confirmed in each case in the following six congressional elections, he could implement his mandate in Congress in a total of seven legislative sessions until January 3, 1945. In 1944, he decided not to run again. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate.

After the end of his activity in Congress Disney worked in Washington and Tulsa as a lawyer. He died in March 1961 in the German capital Washington.