Cyrus Locher

Cyrus Locher

Cyrus Locher (born March 8, 1878 in Putnam County , Ohio , †  August 17, 1929 in Cleveland , Ohio) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Ohio in the US Senate .

After completing his school education, Cyrus Locher first studied at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware , where he graduated in 1903. He then worked as a teacher and as a school councilor in Woodsfield before he began studying law at the University of Michigan and graduated from the Law School of Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1906 . In the same year he was admitted to the bar; from 1907 he worked as a lawyer in Cleveland. From 1908 to 1910 he served as the city's deputy trial attorney.

Locher was a faculty member at Western Reserve University between 1911 and 1912; then he held the office of prosecutor in Cuyahoga County until 1916 and was from 1923 to 1928 as Director of Commerce of the state government of Ohio. After the death of US Senator Frank B. Willis on March 30, 1928, he was appointed his successor; he took his seat in Washington on April 5th. Locher applied, however, in vain for the Democratic nomination for the by-election to this mandate, so that he had to leave the Senate on December 14, 1928. He then returned to Cleveland as a lawyer.

Web links

• Cyrus Locher in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Cyrus punch in the database Find a Grave (English)