Frederick Stevens

Frederick Stevens

Frederick Clement Stevens (born January 1, 1861 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  July 1, 1923 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1915 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

As a child, Frederick Stevens moved to Searsport , Maine with his parents . He attended the public schools in Rockland and then studied until 1881 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Iowa and his admission as a lawyer in 1884, he began to work in Saint Paul in his new profession.

In addition to his legal work, Stevens also embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1888 and 1891 he was an MP in the Minnesota House of Representatives . In the congressional election of 1896 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of Minnesota , where he succeeded Andrew Kiefer on March 4, 1897 . After eight re-elections, he was able to complete nine consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1915 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . In 1913 the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution were passed in Congress. It was about the nationwide income tax and the direct election of the US senators .

In the 1914 elections, Stevens was defeated by the Democrat Carl Van Dyke . In the following years up to his death in 1923 he worked again as a lawyer. Politically, he no longer appeared.

Web links

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

• Frederick Stevens in the database of Find a Grave (English)