Grant E. Mouser, Jr.

Grant E. Mouser (1921)

Grant Earl Mouser Jr. (born February 20, 1895 in Marion , Ohio , †  December 21, 1943 there ) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1933 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Grant Mouser was the son of the congressman of the same name Grant E. Mouser (1868-1949), who survived him. He attended the public schools of his home country and studied in 1913 and 1914 at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware . After a subsequent law degree at Ohio State University in Columbus and his admission to the bar in 1917, he began to work in this profession in Marion in 1920. In between he graduated from the Army Medical School in Washington, DC during the First World War in 1918. He then became a lieutenant in the medical service of the US Army . He was a member of the Western Reserve University College Ambulance reserve unit . Between 1924 and 1927 Mouser was the legal representative for the city of Marion. He then worked until 1929 as an advisor to the Attorney General of Ohio. He was also a State Highway Department attorney in 1927 and 1928 .

Politically, Mouser joined the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1928 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the eighth constituency of Ohio, where he succeeded the Democrat Thomas B. Fletcher , whom he had previously defeated, on March 4, 1929 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 , which were shaped by the events of the Great Depression. In the 1932 election, Mouser lost to his predecessor Fletcher.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1936 he tried unsuccessfully to return to Congress. Grant Mouser died on December 21, 1943 in Marion, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Grant E. Mouser junior in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Grant E. Mouser junior in the database of Find a Grave (English)