Edwin M. Schaefer

Edwin M. Schaefer

Edwin Martin Schaefer (born May 14, 1887 in Belleville , Illinois , †  November 8, 1950 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edwin Schaefer attended the public schools in his home country and then the Western Military Academy in Alton . He then studied at the University of Illinois in Urbana and then until 1910 at Washington University in St. Louis . He later worked as a chemist at Morris & Co. There he rose to the position of general superintendent until 1928 . He had held this position since 1919. Between 1928 and 1930, Schaefer was the head of the notary's office ( Recorder of Deeds ) in St. Clair County . He then worked there as a chamberlain until 1932. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1928, 1932 and 1936 he took part as a delegate at the regional party conventions of the Democrats in Illinois.

In the 1932 congressional election , Schaefer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 22nd  constituency of his state , where he succeeded the late Charles A. Karch on March 4, 1933 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1943 . During this time, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there until 1941 . 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. Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II .

In 1942 Edwin Schaefer declined to run again. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he became a board member of the Griesediech-Western Brewery Co. in Belleville. He died on November 8, 1950 in St. Louis and was buried in Belleville.

Web links

• Edwin M. Schaefer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edwin M. Schaefer in the database of Find a Grave (English)