Edwin F. Sweet

Edwin F. Sweet

Edwin Forrest Sweet (born November 21, 1847 in Dansville , Livingston County , New York , †  April 2, 1935 in Ojai , California ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edwin Sweet attended the public schools of his home country and then studied literature at Yale College until 1871 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission to the bar in 1874, he began to work in Grand Rapids (Michigan) in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1899 and 1906, Sweet was a member of the Grand Rapids Education Committee. From 1904 to 1906 he was also mayor of this city. In the 1910 congressional election , Sweet was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Gerrit J. Diekema on March 4, 1911 . Since he in the elections of 1912 the Republicans Carl E. Mapes defeated, he could only one term in until March 3, 1913 Congress completed.

During Woodrow Wilson's presidency , Sweet was Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 1913 to 1921 . In 1916 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Michigan: With a 40.6 percent share of the vote, he lost significantly to Republican Albert Sleeper . Between 1923 and 1926 he was once again a member of the Education Committee of Grand Rapids; from 1926 to 1928 he was a member of the city council. He also ran a grain farm and a cattle ranch in North Dakota . However, he remained in Grand Rapids until he retired in 1928, which he spent in Ojai, California. He died there on April 2, 1935. He was then buried in Grand Rapids.

Web links

• Edwin F. Sweet in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edwin F. Sweet in the database of Find a Grave (English)