Joseph J. Mansfield

Joseph J. Mansfield, c. 1910

Joseph Jefferson Mansfield (February 9, 1861 – July 12, 1947) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Texas from 1917 to 1947.

Mansfield was born on February 9, 1861. He was born in Wayne, West Virginia. However, when he was born this was still part of state of Virginia. He attended the public schools in West Virginia.^[1]

In 1881 he moved to Texas, settling in the community of Alleyton. Here he worked in farm and railroad laboring jobs.

In 1886 he was admitted to the bar. By this time he had relocated to Eagle Lake, Texas. This was a busy year for Mansfield, as he also organized two companies of the Texas National Guard. About this time he also began the first newspaper in Eagle Lake. Mansfield rose to the rank of captain in the National Guard.

In 1889 he was elected mayor of Eagle Lake. In 1892 he became the county prosecutor of Colorado County where both Alleyton and Eagle Lake are located. From 1896 until 1916 he served as judge of Colorado County. Until 1910 this also made him the effective superintendent of schools for the county.

He was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1916. He served in Congress until his death at Bethesda, Maryland on July 12, 1947.

From the Seventy-second Congress until the Seventy-ninth Congress he served as chairman of the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors. Mansfield Dam is named after him.

Notes

↑ United States Congress. "MANSFIELD, Joseph Jefferson (id: M000112)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by George F. Burgess	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 9th congressional district March 4, 1917 – July 12, 1947	Succeeded by Clark W. Thompson

Chairmen of the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Public Buildings and Grounds (1837–1947)	Towns Petrikin Boardman Pratt Ficklin Faran Houston Bowdon Stanton Craige Ball Keitt Train Rice Covode Hopkins Beatty Halsey Platt Holman Cook Shallenberger Stockslager Dibble Milliken Bankhead Milliken Mercer Gillet Bartholdt Sheppard Clark Langley Elliott Lanham

Rivers and Harbors (1883–1947)	Willis Blanchard Henderson Blanchard Catchings Hooker Cooper Burton Alexander Sparkman Small Kennedy Dempsey Mansfield

Roads (1913–1947)	Shackleford Dunn Dowell Almon Cartwright Robinson

Flood Control (1916–1947)	Humphreys Rodenberg Schall Reid Wilson Whittington

Transportation and Infrastructure* (1947–)	Dondero Whittington Buckley Dondero Buckley Fallon Blatnik Jones Johnson Howard Anderson Roe Mineta E. Shuster Young Oberstar Mica W. Shuster

Notes	^Alternately named Public Works* and Public Works and Transportation.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 101572446 LCCN: no2009172939 US Congress: M000112

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