Donald Edgar Tewes

Party badge for the election campaign (1958)

Donald Edgar Tewes (born August 4, 1916 in Merrill , Lincoln County , Wisconsin , † August 29, 2012 in Waukesha , Wisconsin) was an American politician . Between 1957 and 1959 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Donald Tewes attended Trinity Lutherian School and Merrill High School . He then studied until 1938 at Valparaiso University in Indiana . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his admission as a lawyer in 1940, he began to work in Merrill in his new profession. During the Second World War he was an intelligence officer in the US Army Air Corps . He was deployed in the Asian region around China , Burma and India . By the time he left military service, he had made it to major. From 1947 he was president of Tewes Plastic Corp. who is based in Waukesha .

Politically, Tewes joined the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1956 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Glenn Robert Davis on January 3, 1957 . Since he was defeated by the Democrat Robert Kastenmeier in the elections in 1958 , he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1959 . This was shaped by the events of the Cold War . In 1960, Tewes applied again unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He then withdrew from politics and returned to his business affairs. He lived in Waukesha until his death.

Web links

• Donald Edgar Tewes in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

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1. ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Obituary: View Donald Tewes's Obituary , accessed October 11, 2012