 |
History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriTheodore Leonard IRVING
(1898-1962)
IRVING, Theodore Leonard,
a Representative from Missouri; born in St. Paul, Ramsey County,
Minn., March 24, 1898; moved with his parents to a farm in North
Dakota; attended the public schools of North Dakota; worked for a
railroad as a boy and during the First World War; left the railroad
to become manager of a theater in Montana; moved to California and
was manager of a hotel; moved to Jackson County, Mo., in 1934 and
was employed as a construction worker and later became a
representative of the American Federation of Labor; elected as a
Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January
3, 1949-January 3, 1953); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; defeated for Democratic
nomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; labor organizer
and later president of a labor union in Kansas City, Mo.; died in
Washington, D.C., while on a business trip March 8, 1962; interment
in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Related Links
|
24 X 7
Private Tutor
|
24 x 7 Tutor Availability |
|
|
Unlimited Online Tutoring |
|
|
1-on-1 Tutoring |
|
