Edward A. Kelly

Edward Austin Kelly (born April 3, 1892 in Chicago , Illinois , †  August 30, 1969 there ) was an American politician . Between 1931 and 1943 and again from 1945 to 1947 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Kelly attended Longfellow School and Lake High School . In 1911 he graduated from Orr's Business College in Chicago. From 1912 to 1916 he was a professional baseball player . He then worked as an accountant at a steel company between 1916 and 1920. This time was interrupted by his military service as a sergeant in the US Army during the First World War. He was deployed to the European theater of war for nine months. From 1920 he worked in the insurance industry and in the real estate market. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1930 congressional election , Kelly was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded Elliott W. Sproul on March 4, 1931 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1943 . Since 1933 the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there; from 1941 the work of the congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War . In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were applied for the first time , according to which the legislative period of the Congress ends or begins on January 3rd.

In 1942, Edward Kelly was not re-elected. Between 1943 and 1945 he was an assistant in the Chicago City Court. From 1944 to 1946 he was also a member of the Chicago Planning Commission. In the elections of 1944 he was re-elected to Congress in the third district of his state, where he replaced Republican Fred E. Busbey on January 3, 1947 , who had succeeded him two years earlier. Since he lost again to Busbey in 1946, he could only spend one more term in Congress until January 3, 1947. During this time the Second World War ended.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Edward Kelly returned to the real estate business in Chicago, where he died on August 30, 1969.

Web links

• Edward A. Kelly in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward A. Kelly in the database of Find a Grave (English)