Allen T. Treadway

Allen T. Treadway (1923)

Allen Towner Treadway (born September 16, 1867 in Stockbridge , Massachusetts , †  February 16, 1947 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1945 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Allen Treadway attended the public schools in his home country and then Amherst College until 1886 . He then worked in the hotel industry. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1904 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives . Between 1908 and 1911 he was a member of the State Senate , of which he had been President since 1909.

In the 1912 congressional election , Treadway was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of Massachusetts, where he succeeded George P. Lawrence on March 4, 1913 . After 15 re-elections, he was able to complete a total of 16 legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1945 . During this time the First World War fell . Since 1933, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed in Congress, which Treadway's party was rather hostile to. Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II .

In 1944, Allen Treadway waived another congressional candidacy. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Stockbridge. He died on February 16, 1947 in the federal capital Washington.

Web links

• Allen T. Treadway in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Allen T. Treadway in the database of Find a Grave (English)