Alvin F. Weichel

Alvin F. Weichel

Alvin F. Weichel (born September 11, 1891 in Sandusky , Ohio ; †  November 27, 1956 there ) was an American politician . Between 1943 and 1955 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alvin Weichel attended the public schools in his home country. In 1918, during the final stages of World War I, he was at a US Army training camp and then at a supply unit in Georgia . He did not come to the war. He then belonged to the Officers' Reserve Corps until 1928 . After the war he graduated from Ferris Institute in Big Rapids ( Michigan ). He then studied at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . After a subsequent law degree at Michigan College of Law and his admission to the bar in 1924, he began to work in this profession. Weichel then became state commissioner for bankruptcies and from 1931 to 1937 prosecutor in Erie County . At times he was special advisor to the Ohio Attorney General . He also held lectures at the at the Ohio State University in Columbus settled Police Administration School. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party .

In the 1942 congressional elections , Weichel was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 13th  constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Albert David Baumhart, who had since resigned, on January 3, 1943 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1955 . During this time the end of the Second World War , the beginning of the Cold War , the Korean War and, domestically, the civil rights movement fell . From 1947 to 1949 and again between 1953 and 1955 Weichel was chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries . In 1954 he renounced another candidacy.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Alvin Weichel practiced as a lawyer again. He died on November 27, 1956 in his hometown of Sandusky, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Alvin F. Weichel in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Alvin F. Weichel in the database of Find a Grave (English)