Thomas H. Werdel

Thomas H. Werdel

Thomas Harold Werdel (September 13, 1905 - September 30, 1966) was a U.S. Representative from California.

Born in Emery, Hanson County, S.Dak., Werdel moved with his parents to Kern County, California, in 1915.He attended the public schools and Kern County Union High School.He was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1930 and from the University of California Law School in 1936.He was admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced the practice of law in Bakersfield, California.He served as member of the California State assembly from the thirty-ninth district in the legislative sessions of 1943 and 1945.

Werdel was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress.He resumed the practice of law. States' Rights Party candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1956.He died in Bakersfield, California, September 30, 1966.He was interred in Greenlawn Memorial Park.

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