John Downey Works (* 29. March 1847 in Rising Sun , Ohio County , Indiana ; † 6. June 1928 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ), of the state of California in the US Senate .

John Works attended private schools in Indiana. As a young man, he joined a volunteer regiment of the cavalry from his homeland and fought on the Union side in the Civil War . After studying law, he studied jurisprudence , became a lawyer in 1868, and began practicing law in Vevay . He took his first political mandate as a deputy in the House of Representatives of Indiana between 1878 and 1880.

In 1883 Works moved to San Diego , California, where he continued to work as a lawyer. From 1886 to 1887 he acted as judge at the Superior Court of San Diego County ; Then he belonged to the California Supreme Court from 1888 to 1891 as an assistant judge. After settling in Los Angeles in 1896, he was elected President of the City Council there in 1910.

In the same year, Works won the election to the US Senator. He took his mandate in Washington, DC from March 4, 1911, and stayed there until March 3, 1917; He was not available for a new candidacy. During his time in the Senate he chaired, among other things, the chairmanship of the Committee on the Control of the Expenditure of the Ministry of War and the Fisheries Committee.

Works then worked as an attorney again, but also worked as a book author. He published the books Duty to Man: A Study of Social Conditions and How They May Be Improved and What's Wrong With the World? , Before he died in Los Angeles in 1928.

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