AF Maciejewski

Anton Frank "AF" Maciejewski (born January 3, 1893 in Anderson , Texas , †  September 25, 1949 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1942 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

AF Maciejewski attended the public schools in Cicero, Illinois and the Lewis Institute in Chicago. From 1916 he worked in the coal trade in Cicero. Between 1925 and 1928 he worked for the Charge of Relief in Cook County . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of both his party's state board and the Democratic National Committee . In June 1928 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Houston . Between 1932 and 1939 he was mayor and treasurer of Cicero.

In the 1938 congressional elections , Maciejewski was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded Thomas J. O'Brien on January 3, 1939 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on December 8, 1942 . By 1941, the last of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II . In 1942 he decided not to run again and resigned a few weeks before the official end of the legislative period (January 3, 1943).

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Maciejewski worked again in the coal business. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the sanitary district of Chicago . He died in Chicago on September 25, 1949.

Web links

• AF Maciejewski in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• AF Maciejewski in the database of Find a Grave (English)