William Voris Gregory

William Voris Gregory ( * October 21, 1877 in Farmington, Graves County, Kentucky, † October 10, 1936 in Mayfield, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1936 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Gregory attended both private and public schools. In 1896 he graduated from Western Kentucky College in Mayfield. From 1898 to 1900 he worked in this city in the teaching profession. After a subsequent law degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon (Tennessee ) and his 1902 was admitted to the bar he began in Mayfield to work in this profession. Between 1902 and 1910 he was employed as County Surveyor at Graves County. From 1913 to 1919 he acted as a judge in the same district. After Gregory was from 1919 to 1923 Attorney for the Western Kentucky. Between 1920 and 1927 he was also curator of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville. Since 1925, he chaired this Board. Gregory was also vice president of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Commission.

Politically, Gregory member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1926, he was the first electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of albums W. Barkley on March 4, 1927. After four elections he could remain until his death on 10 October 1936 at the Congress. During his time in Congress, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified. 1936 Gregory was nominated by his party for re-election; but he died before the election. The nomination went to his brother Noble, who should represent the first district 1937-1959 in Congress after several electoral successes.

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