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John Edward Nelson (July 12, 1874 - April 11, 1955) was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in China, Kennebec County, Maine on July 12, 1874. He attended the common and high schools of Waterville, Maine. He graduated from Friends School, Providence, R.I., in 1894, from Colby College in 1898, and from the law department of the University of Maine at Orono in 1904. He was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Waterville. He then moved to Augusta in 1913 and continued the practice of his chosen profession. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative John A. Peters. He was reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (March 20, 1922 – March 3, 1933), but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress. He was a trustee of Colby College 1926-1931, and also served as trustee of Monmouth (Maine) Academy. He practiced law until his retirement in 1946, and died on April 11, 1955, in Augusta, Maine. His interment is in Pine Grove Cemetery, Waterville, Maine. ==Dissenter on Anti-Communist Fish Committee== In 1930 Nelson served on a House Committee convened by Rep. Hamilton Fish III of New York to investigate communist activity in the United States. When the committee's report was issued in early 1931, it called for the outlawing of the Communist Party in the United States, denying citizenship to naturalized communists, and other measures to guard against what it saw as a substantial domestic political threat. Nelson refused to sign it, and issued his own minority report, finding that "communism is making no menacing headway in America" and recommending that no new legislation need be enacted. He decried the "hysteria" over Communism, declared: ''Our best defense against the red shirt of the Communist and the black shirt of the Fascist is the blue shirt of the American workingman.''〔(''Time'' Jan. 26, 1931 ); ''Berkeley Daily Gazette'', Jan. 19, 1931, p. 1〕 The ''New York World'' congratulated Nelson as the "one member of the committee (who) was able to keep his feet on the ground".〔''Telegraph-Herald and Times Journal'', Jan. 25, 1931, p. 16〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John E. Nelson (Maine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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