Albert F. Dawson

Albert F. Dawson

Albert Foster Dawson (born January 26, 1872 in Spragueville , Jackson County , Iowa , † March 9, 1949 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1905 and 1911 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Albert Dawson attended public schools in his home country and then the University of Wisconsin – Madison . Then he got into the newspaper business. In this branch he worked in Preston from 1891 to 1892 and then in Clinton between 1892 and 1894 . Politically, Dawson was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1895 and 1905 he was secretary to Congressman George M. Curtis and US Senator William B. Allison . In the meantime he studied finance at George Washington University .

In 1904, Dawson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Iowa , where he succeeded Democrat Martin Joseph Wade on March 4, 1905 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1911 . In 1910 he decided not to run again. In the same year he also turned down an offer from US President William Howard Taft to hire him as his secretary.

Between 1911 and 1929, Dawson was President of the First National Bank of Davenport . In 1930 he was executive secretary of the Republican National Senatorial Committee . He then sat on the board of the public pension funds from 1931 to 1945. He then retired to his retirement, he in Highland Park ( Illinois spent). Albert Dawson died on March 9, 1949, while on a train ride near Cincinnati.

Web links

• Albert F. Dawson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Albert F. Dawson in the database of Find a Grave (English)