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Frederick Essen (born April 22, 1863 in Pond , St. Louis County , Missouri , †  August 18, 1946 in Creve Coeur , Missouri) was an American politician . In 1918 and 1919 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frederick Essen attended the public schools in his home country and then initially worked in agriculture. Between 1894 and 1902 he was head of the land registry in St. Louis County. He then worked in the newspaper industry in Clayton . There he bought two newspapers, which he merged under the name "Watchman Advocate". At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1904, 1908 and 1912 Essen was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions at which Theodore Roosevelt and later William Howard Taft twice were nominated as presidential candidates. Between 1909 and 1919 he headed the Clayton Education Committee.

After the death of Congressman Jacob Edwin Meeker , Essen was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , at the by-election due for the tenth seat of Missouri , where he took up his new mandate on November 5, 1918. Since he refused to run again in the regular congressional elections of 1918 , he was only able to end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1919 . During this time the First World War ended .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Frederick Essen withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked again in the newspaper business. He also got into the banking industry. He died on August 18, 1946 in Creve Coeur, a suburb of St. Louis .

Web links

• Frederick Essen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)