
Frederick Van Nuys (16 April 1874-25 January 1944) was a Democratic US Senator from Indiana from 4 March 1933 to 25 January 1944, succeeding James Eli Watson and preceding Samuel D. Jackson.
Biography[]
Frederick Van Nuys was born in Falmouth, Indiana in 1874, and he became a lawyer in Shelbyville in 1900 and served as Madison County prosecuting attorney from 1906 to 1910, in the State Senate from 1913 to 1916, as US Attorney for the District of Indiana from 1920 to 1922, and in the US Senate from 1933 to 1944. He was an opponent of Prohibition, supported anti-lynching legislation, and opposed his state's political machine, but he opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the US Supreme Court, flirted with isolationism during World War II, and often voted with the Conservative Democrats. He died at his home in Vienna, Virginia in 1944.