American politician
Charles Bernard Hoeven
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From 1963's
Pocket Congressional Directory of the Eighty-Eighth Congress
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In office
January 3, 1943 ? January 3, 1965
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Preceded by
| Fred C. Gilchrist
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Succeeded by
| Stanley L. Greigg
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Constituency
| 8th district
(1943?1963)
6th district
(1963?1965)
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In office
January 11, 1937 ? January 12, 1941
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Preceded by
| Garritt E. Roelofs
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Succeeded by
| Jans Dykhouse
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Born
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1895-03-30
)
March 30, 1895
Hospers, Iowa
, U.S.
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Died
| November 9, 1980
(1980-11-09)
(aged 85)
Orange City, Iowa
, U.S.
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Resting place
| Nassau Township Cemetery,
Alton, Iowa
, U.S.
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Political party
| Republican
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Education
| University of Iowa
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Allegiance
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United States of America
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Branch/service
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United States Army
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Unit
| Company D, 350th Infantry, 88th Division
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Charles Bernard Hoeven
(March 30, 1895 – November 9, 1980) was an American politician. Elected to represent districts in northern
Iowa
for eleven terms, from the
Seventy-eighth
to
Eighty-eighth
Congresses, in all he held elective office for forty consecutive years. He was a member of the
Republican Party
.
Early life and education
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Hoeven was born in
Hospers, Iowa
; his paternal grandparents were
Dutch
immigrants and his maternal grandparents were
German
immigrants.
[1]
Hoeven attended the public schools and Alton (Iowa) High School.
[2]
During
World War I
, Hoeven served in England and France as a sergeant in Company D, 350th Infantry, 88th Division, and with the Intelligence Service of the First Battalion.
He received a bachelor's degree from the
University of Iowa
at Iowa City, in 1920 and a law degree from the
University of Iowa College of Law
in 1922.
Political career
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Hoeven was
admitted to the bar
in 1922 and began to practice law in
Alton, Iowa
. He was elected as County Attorney of
Sioux County, Iowa
in 1924, and served in that position from 1925 to 1937. Then, he was elected to the
Iowa Senate
, where he served from 1937 to 1941, the last two years as
president pro tempore
.
[3]
In 1940, Hoeven ran for the Republican nomination in
Iowa's 9th congressional district
(which was then represented by Democrat
Vincent Harrington
of
Sioux City
). Hoeven finished a close second to
Albert Swanson
in the primary, who in turn lost to Harrington in the general election by fewer than 2,500 votes out of over 130,000 cast. Newspapers and others speculated that, if Hoeven had won the primary, he would have defeated Harrington.
[4]
Thus, when reapportionment shifted most of the old 9th district into
Iowa's 8th congressional district
, Hoeven became an early front-runner for the 1942 Republican primary to run against Harrington. He won the primary, and received a significant boost when Harrington resigned his House seat and the Democratic nomination two months before the 1942 general election to serve full-time in the
U.S. Army Air Corps
in England.
[5]
Democrats quickly nominated new candidates to serve out Harrington's 9th district term and to run against Hoeven in the 8th district, but Hoeven won the 8th district seat by over 19,000 votes.
Hoeven was then re-elected to Congress from that district an additional nine times, the last time in 1960 (when he defeated future U.S. District Court Judge
Donald E. O'Brien
). Following the 1960 census, Iowa lost a congressional district, and the bulk of his territory was reconfigured as the
6th district
. Hoeven was elected again. He chose not to run in 1964, the year in which 48 Republican seats (including Iowa's Sixth District) were lost to Democrats. Hoeven voted in favor of the
Civil Rights Acts of 1957
,
[6]
1960
,
[7]
and
1964
,
[8]
as well as the
24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
.
[9]
Hoeven also served as vice president of a savings bank.
In the Republican Party, Hoeven was a delegate to each Iowa State Republican Convention from 1925 to 1970, serving as chairman of the 1940 state convention. He was a delegate to the
1964 Republican National Convention
. In 1942, he also served as temporary and permanent chairman of Iowa Republican State Judicial Convention.
Retirement and death
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After retiring from Congress, Hoeven resided in
Orange City, Iowa
, where he died on November 9, 1980. He was interred in Nassau Township Cemetery, in
Alton, Iowa
.
References
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- ^
"United States Census, 1910"
,
FamilySearch
, retrieved
March 21,
2018
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"Biographical Directory of the United States Congress"
. Hoeven, Charles Bernard
. Retrieved
December 15,
2010
.
- ^
"Senator Charles Bernard Hoeven"
. Iowa General Assembly
. Retrieved
November 28,
2023
.
- ^
"One Definite Candidacy," The Fredericksburg News, September 11, 1941 at 4.
- ^
"Harrington Resigns from Congress," Sioux Center News, 1942-09-10, at 1.
- ^
"HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957"
.
GovTrack.us
.
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"HR 8601. PASSAGE"
.
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"H.R. 7152. PASSAGE"
.
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"S.J. RES. 29. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BAN THE USE OF POLL TAX AS A REQUIREMENT FOR VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS"
.
GovTrack.us
.
External links
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This article incorporates
public domain material
from the
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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