- Joe Crail
Joe Crail (
December 25 ,1877 -March 2 ,1938 ) was aUnited States Representative fromCalifornia . He was born in Fairfield,Jefferson County, Iowa . He attended the public schools and was graduated fromDrake University inDes Moines, Iowa in 1898.During the
Spanish-American War , Crail enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Company,United States Volunteer Signal Corps . He was promoted tocorporal and served in the American Army of Occupation inCuba until its withdrawal. He studied law at theIowa College of Law , and was admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice inFairfield, Iowa .Crail moved to California in 1913, settled in
Los Angeles , and practiced law until elected to Congress. He served as chairman of the Republican State central committee for southern California 1918-1920. He was elected as a Republican to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1927 -March 3, 1933). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1932, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination asUnited States Senator . He resumed the practice of law but also engaged inbanking . He died in Los Angeles, California in 1938. He was buried in Inglewood Park Mausoleum,Inglewood, California .References
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