Elmer H. Wene

Elmer H. Wene (1937)

Elmer H. Wene (born May 1, 1892 in Pittstown , Hunterdon County , New Jersey , †  January 25, 1957 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1945 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives twice .

Career

Elmer Wene attended public schools in his home country and then studied at Rutgers University in New Brunswick . He then worked in agriculture near Vineland . At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1925 and 1934, Wene served on the New Jersey Agriculture Committee. In the 1936 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of his state , where he succeeded Isaac Bacharach on January 3, 1937 . Since he was defeated by Republican Walter S. Jeffries in 1938 , he was initially only able to serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1939 , during which further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government.

Between 1939 and 1941, Wene was a member of the Cumberland County county council . In 1940 he was re-elected to Congress in the second district of New Jersey, where he replaced Walter Jeffries on January 3, 1941. After re-election in 1942, he was able to spend two more legislative terms in the US House of Representatives until January 3, 1945, which were shaped by the events of the Second World War . In 1944, Wene declined to run again. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully for election to the US Senate .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Wene returned to farming. He was mainly active in the field of poultry farming. He also directed two broadcasters in New Jersey in 1945. Elmer Wene also became an advisor to the US Department of Agriculture . In 1946 he was elected to the New Jersey Senate; In 1947 he was a member of a commission for the revision of the state constitution. The following year he became Deputy Minister of Agriculture under President Harry S. Truman . In 1949 Elmer Wene ran unsuccessfully for governor of New Jersey; a year later, another congressional candidacy failed. In 1953, he sought to nominate his party for the gubernatorial elections just as unsuccessfully. He died in Philadelphia on January 25, 1957.

Web links

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• Elmer H. Wene in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Elmer H. Wene in the database of Find a Grave (English)