Charles M. La Follette

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Charles Marion La Follette (born February 27, 1898 in New Albany , Floyd County , Indiana , †  June 27, 1974 in Trenton , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1943 and 1947 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles La Follette was the great-grandson of Congressman William Heilman (1824-1890) and a third cousin of Senator Robert La Follette (1895-1953) as well as Philip La Follette (1897-1965), the two-time governor of Wisconsin was . In 1901 he came to Evansville with his parents , where he later attended public schools. In September 1916 he began studying at Wabash College in Crawfordville , which he interrupted to take part in the First World War as a soldier in the US Army between 1917 and 1919 . During this time he was on the front lines for four months. After the war, La Follette continued his education at Wabash College until 1921. After a subsequent law degree at various universities and his admission as a lawyer in 1925, he began to work in Evansville in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

Between 1927 and 1929, La Follette was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives . In the 1942 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded John W. Boehne on January 3, 1943 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1947 . These were determined by the events of the Second World War and its immediate consequences.

In 1946, Charles La Follette declined to run for the US House of Representatives again. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . In 1947 he was involved in the Nuremberg war crimes trials as a lawyer . He was then military governor for the American occupation zone in Württemberg-Baden between 1947 and 1949 . From 1950 to 1951 La Follette was a member of the first committee for un-American activities ( Subversive Activities Control Board ). Then he withdrew from politics. He died in Trenton on June 27, 1974.

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SURNAME La Follette, Charles M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Follette, Charles Marion (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH New Albany , Floyd County , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1974
Place of death Trenton , New Jersey