AC Schiffler

Andrew Charles Schiffler (born August 10, 1889 in Wheeling , West Virginia , † March 27, 1970 there ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1941 and again from 1943 to 1945 he represented the first constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

A. C. Schiffler attended the public schools in his home country. After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1913, he began to practice his new profession in Wheeling. Between 1918 and 1922 he was a bankruptcy administrator in the northern district of West Virginia; from 1925 to 1932 he was a district attorney in Ohio County .

Schiffler was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1936 and 1938 he was party chairman in Ohio County. In 1938 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first district of West Virginia . There he took over on January 3, 1939, to succeed the Democrat Robert L. Ramsay , whom he had defeated in the election. But since he was defeated by Ramsay in the next election in 1940, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1941 . In the elections of 1942 there was another duel with Ramsay. In the process, Schiffler was able to regain his mandate, which had been lost two years earlier, and to spend another legislative period in Congress between January 3, 1943 and January 3, 1945. This was overshadowed by the events of the Second World War . In the 1944 election, Schiffler lost to Matthew M. Neely .

After his tenure in Congress, Schiffler worked as a lawyer in Wheeling until his death in 1970.

Web links

• AC Schiffler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• AC Schiffler in the database of Find a Grave (English)