Charles V. Truax
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Biography
Born on a farm near Sycamore, Ohio, Truax attended the public schools and graduated from Sycamore High School. He engaged in the implement business, and afterward, in agricultural pursuits. He was editor of the Swine World magazine from 1916 to 1921. He was appointed director of agriculture of Ohio by Governor A. Victor Donahey in 1923 and served until 1929. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1928. He engaged in the life insurance business in Columbus, Ohio, in 1928. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., August 9, 1935. He was interred in Pleasant View Cemetery, Sycamore, Ohio.
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- 1887 births
- 1935 deaths
- People from Sycamore, Ohio
- Politicians from Columbus, Ohio
- State cabinet secretaries of Ohio
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
- 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives