Joseph I. France
Joseph I. France | |
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Maryland State Senate | |
In office 1907–1909 | |
Preceded by | Henry M. McCullough |
Succeeded by | Omar D. Crothers |
Personal details | |
Born | Joseph Irwin France October 11, 1873 Cameron, Missouri |
Died | January 26, 1939 Port Deposit, Maryland | (aged 65)
Resting place | Hopewell Cemetery Port Deposit, Maryland |
Nationality | American |
Political party | Republican |
Spouses | |
University of Leipzig Clark University | |
Joseph Irwin France (October 11, 1873 – January 26, 1939) was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1917 to 1923.
Early life
France was born in
In 1895, he graduated from
France began to teach natural science at the Jacob Tome Institute of Port Deposit, Maryland, in 1897, but resigned later to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland. He commenced the practice of medicine in Baltimore after graduation in 1903.
Career
France was elected to the
After a short time out of politics, France re-entered the political arena in 1916 and was elected to the United States Senate. During the 65th Congress, he served in the Senate as the chairman of the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine. France attempted to introduce an amendment to the Sedition Act of 1918 that would have ensured limited free speech protections, but the amendment was defeated, and France would remark that the legislation was criminal, repressive, and characteristic of the Dark Ages.[3]
France warned in March 1920 that "Republican liberals" would split off the Republican Party to form the "Anti-
Following his defeat, France became President of the Republic International Corporation and also resumed the practice of medicine in Port Deposit. France also joined the
France opposed
When Senator
Relations with Russia
France was the first U.S. Senator to visit
I have just finished a conference with Senator France. ... He told me how he came out for Soviet Russia at large public meetings together with Comrade Martens [an unofficial Soviet representative in the United States]. He is what they call a "liberal", for an alliance of the United States plus Russia, plus Germany, in order to save the world from Japan, England, and so on, and so on.[10]
The letter went on to relate that Marguerite Harrison was the sister-in-law of the Governor of Maryland and that Senator France's re-election was put in jeopardy by her incarceration. France attracted controversy in the United States by accusing Colonel Edward W. Ryan of the American Red Cross of fomenting the Kronstadt rebellion.[11]
Civil rights
France spoke at a 1920 meeting of the
Personal life
In 1903 France married Evalyn Smith Tome, widow of millionaire Jacob Tome. Evalyn France was the first woman to be president of a national bank.[14] Three months after her death in 1927, France married a Russian woman named Tatiana Vladimirovna Dechtereva in Paris.[8][15] They divorced in July 1938.[1]
Death
France died of a heart attack on January 26, 1939, at his home on the Tome estate in Port Deposit.[1] He is buried at Hopewell Cemetery in Port Deposit.
See also
- Evalyn France
- U.S.-Soviet relations
- Marguerite Harrison
References
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ^ Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) (1899). Decennial celebration, 1889-1899. Clark. p. 494. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ^ Revolutionary sparks: freedom of expression in modern America, Margaret A. Blanchard, 1992 [1]
- ^ WARNS OF REPUBLICAN SPLIT; Senator France Declares "Liberals" May Form Anti-Prohibition Party, New York Times, March 23, 1920 [2]
- ^ War powers of the executive in the United States, pg. 151, Clarence Arthur Berdahl, 1921 [3]
- ^ 10,000 Famous Freemasons, 1957, William R. Denslow
- ^ JOSEPH IRWIN FRANCE, M.D. The Professor & Senator Who Would Be President, Erika Quesenbery, Curator, Paw Paw Museum, Port Deposit, MD [4]
- ^ a b POLITICAL NOTES: France-for-President, April 20, 1931
- ^ Marooned in Moscow: the Story of an American Woman Imprisoned in Russia, 1921, Marguerite E. Harrison,[5]
- ^ Herbert Hoover and famine relief to Soviet Russia, 1921–1923, pg. 9, Benjamin M. Weissman, 1974 [6]
- ^ WASHINGTON LAUGHS AT FRANCE CHARGES, New York Times, August 4, 1921
- ^ "Senator France, Representative Dyer to Urge Federal Anti-Lynching [Law]", Press Service of the NAACP, November 29, 1920 [7]
- ^ THE FIRST COLORED Professional, Clerical and Business DIRECTORY OF BALTIMORE CITY 10th Annual Edition, 1922–1923, Volume 502, Preface 2 [8]
- ^ Milestones, Time Magazine, May 2, 1927
- ^ The Political Graveyard: Index of Politicians
External links
- Media related to Joseph I. France at Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Irwin France papers at the University of Maryland Libraries
- United States Congress. "Joseph I. France (id: F000333)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.