Burton E. Sweet

Burton E. Sweet

Burton Erwin Sweet (born December 10, 1867 in Waverly , Iowa , †  January 3, 1957 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1923 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Burton Sweet attended the public schools of his home country, the Iowa State Normal School at Cedar Falls and then by 1893 Cornell College at Mount Vernon . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and his admission as a lawyer in 1895, he began to practice in Waverly in his new profession. Between 1896 and 1899 he was also a lawyer for this community. Politically, Sweet became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1900 and 1904 he was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives . In 1904 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for a further term. From 1902 to 1906, Sweet served on his party's regional executive committee for Iowa. In 1908 he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the congressional elections.

In 1914, Sweet was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Iowa , where he succeeded Maurice Connolly on March 4, 1915 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1923 . During this time the First World War fell . In addition, the 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were passed in Congress. It was about the alcohol ban and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage .

In 1922 Sweet declined to run again. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully within his party to be nominated for a by-election in the US Senate . Two years later, in 1924, another attempt to win his party's nomination for the Senate elections failed. After these defeats, Sweet withdrew from politics. He worked as a lawyer in the years that followed and died in January 1957 at the age of 89 in his hometown of Waverly.

Web links

• Burton E. Sweet in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Burton E. Sweet in the database of Find a Grave (English)