Raymond S. McKeough, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American politician
Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1888
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 16-Dec-1979
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Raymond S. McKeough
- Raymond Stephen McKeough (April 29, 1888 – December 16, 1979) was a Democratic politician who served as a U.S.
- Representative from Illinois from 1935 to 1943. McKeough was born in Chicago, Illinois.
- He graduated from the De La Salle Institute in 1905 and went to work in the Union Stock Yards.
- In 1909 he became a railroad clerk.
- He entered the securities industry in 1925 and was a broker from 1929 to 1934. In 1934 McKeough won the Democratic nomination for Congress from Illinois' 2nd District.
- He was endorsed by the Cook County Democratic Party and its chairman Patrick Nash.
- McKeough served four two-year terms in this position. In 1942, McKeough, already well-known statewide, decided to run for the United States Senate.
- His opponent in the Democratic primary was Paul Douglas, an economist and professor at the University of Chicago who had long been associated with "reform" politics.
- Douglas carried 99 of Illinois' 102 counties, but McKeough's Chicago-area majority was sufficient to overcome this and win the nomination.
- In November, however, McKeough lost to the incumbent Republican senator, Charles W.
- Brooks. Soon after the end of his Congressional service, McKeough went to work for the Office of Price Administration, a World War II-era federal agency charged with the enforcement of wartime wage and price controls instituted to prevent inflation.
- He worked for this agency until January 1944.
- In October 1945, he was named to the United States Maritime Commission, serving on this body until 1950.
- He then served on the U.S.
- International Claims Commission from 1951 to 1953.
- In 1956, he worked briefly with the Great American Oil Company. On December 3, 1956, McKeough embarked on what became his last stint in public service, as an assistant state's attorney.
- He held this position for exactly four years, retiring on December 3, 1960.
- After this he engaged in the insurance business prior to his death in Chicago in 1979.
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