Edgar D. Bush

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Edgar D. Bush (born February 3, 1873 in Washington County , Indiana, † July 21, 1949 in New Albany , Indiana) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1921 and again from 1929 to 1933 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Indiana .

Career

Edgar Bush lived at least temporarily in Salem and was a member of the Republican Party . In 1916 he was elected lieutenant governor of Indiana for the first time alongside James Goodrich . He held this office between January 8, 1917 and January 10, 1921. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . During the First World War he was one of the initiators of a law that prohibited teaching the German language in Indiana and made it a criminal offense.

Between January 14, 1929 and January 9, 1933, Edgar Bush again held the office of Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. This time he acted as a deputy to Governor Harry Leslie . In 1936 he was a substitute delegate to the Republican National Convention . Then his track is lost again.

literature

  • The Phi Gamma Delta, Volume 72, Issue 5, Board of Trustees of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta., 1950, p. 282.

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personal data
SURNAME Bush, Edgar D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington County , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1949
Place of death New Albany , Indiana