Martin Dies, Jr.
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican politician (1900-1972)
, was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and after that to the six succeeding Congresses.
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Dies relaxes as he speaks to reporters (November 7, 1938)
Dies receives "Heil Hitler" from first witness John Metcalfe, former Chicago reporter, then committee investigator who infiltrated Nazis under name Hellmut Oberwinder (August 12, 1938)
Dies speaks with fellow committee member J. Parnell Thomas, who had recently sponsored a bill of impeachment against Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, to discuss forthcoming testimony of Felix McWhirter (May 23, 1939)
Actress Florence Eldridge, actor Fredric March, and Martin Dies, Jr. at Dies Committee hearings in Los Angeles (1940)
Martin Dies Jr., official portrait for the US Congress (1952)Politicians from United States 6
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Martin Dies Jr., also known as Martin Dies Sr., was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and after that to the six succeeding Congresses. In 1944, Dies did not seek renomination to the Seventy-ninth Congress, but was elected to the Eighty-third and to the two succeeding Congresses. Again, he did not seek renomination in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress. In 1941 and 1957, he was twice defeated for the nomination to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. A Southern Conservative Democrat, Dies served as the first chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities from 1937 through 1944.
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