George Washington Blanchard

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George Washington Blanchard (born January 26, 1884 in Colby , Marathon County , Wisconsin , †  October 2, 1964 in Edgerton , Wisconsin) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Blanchard attended the public schools in his home country and then studied until 1906 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . After a subsequent law degree at the same university and his admission as a lawyer in 1910, he began to work in Edgerton in his new profession. Between 1912 and 1932 he was a city lawyer there.

Politically, Blanchard was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1925 and 1927 he was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly ; from 1927 to 1933 he was a member of the State Senate . In the 1932 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Thomas Ryum Amlie , whom he had defeated in the primary on March 4, 1933 . Since he refused to run again in 1934, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1935 . Following a constitutional amendment, this was shortened by two months because the beginning of the legislative period had been brought forward from March 4th to January 3rd. In the elections of 1934 , his predecessor Amlie, who was now running for the Wisconsin Progressive Party , was also elected as his successor. During Blanchard's time in the US House of Representatives, the first New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed, but Blanchard's party was rather hostile to them.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, George Blanchard withdrew from politics. In the following years he practiced again as a lawyer in Edgerton. He died there on October 2, 1964.

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SURNAME Blanchard, George Washington
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Colby , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1964
Place of death Edgerton , Wisconsin