Arsène Pujo

Arsène Pujo

Arsène Paulin Pujo (born December 16, 1861 in Lake Charles , Louisiana , †  December 31, 1939 in New Orleans , Louisiana) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1913 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Arsène Pujo attended both public and private schools. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1886, he began to work in Lake Charles in his new profession. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1898 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Louisiana constitution.

In the congressional elections of 1902 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the newly created seventh constituency of Louisiana , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1903. After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1913 . Between 1911 and 1913 he was chairman of the banking and currency committee. Since 1908 he was a member of the National Monetary Commission , which analyzed foreign banking systems. in order to explore ways of improving the American system. One result of the work of the commission was the Federal Reserve Act , passed in 1913 .

In 1912 Pujo declined to run again. In the following years he withdrew from politics and worked again as a lawyer. He died in New Orleans on December 31, 1939.

Web links

• Arsène Pujo in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Arsène Pujo in the database of Find a Grave (English)