Roy H. Thorpe
Roy Henry Thorpe (December 13, 1874 – September 19, 1951) was an American salesman and Republican Party politician.He worked as a salesman in Du Quoin, Illinois, from 1897 to 1904 and in Shenandoah, Iowa, from 1905 to 1919.In 1919, Thorpe moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, still working as a salesman.On November 7, 1922, he was elected to the Sixty-seventh United States Congress to fill the seat left open by C. Frank Reavis who resigned to become a special war fraud prosecutor.He did not seek reelection in 1922, but attempted a comeback in 1924 but was defeated by John H.