Edward C. Eicher

Edward C. Eicher (1938)

Edward Clayton Eicher (born December 16, 1878 in Noble , Washington County , Iowa , †  November 29, 1944 in Alexandria , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1938 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Eicher attended public schools in his home country including the Washington Academy . He then graduated from Morgan Park Academy in Illinois and then in 1904 the University of Chicago . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1906, he began to practice in Washington (Iowa) in his new profession. Between 1907 and 1909 he was employed as an assistant registrar in the administration of the University of Chicago. In 1909 he moved to Burlington , where he worked as a lawyer for a railroad company until 1918. In 1918 he returned to Washington and worked there again as a private lawyer.

Politically, Eicher was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1932 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Franklin D. Roosevelt was first nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of the same year he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Iowa . There he took over from William F. Kopp on March 4, 1933 . After he was confirmed in the following two elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on December 2, 1938 . During this time, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were discussed and passed there.

Eicher's resignation took place after his appointment to the Securities and Exchange Commission ( Securities and Exchange Commission ) by President Roosevelt. Until 1942 he remained a member of this commission, of which he was chairman at the time of his resignation. In February 1942, Edward Eicher was appointed Chief Justice for the District of Columbia. He held this office until his death in 1944.

Web links

• Edward C. Eicher in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward C. Eicher in the database of Find a Grave (English)