Herbert S. Bigelow

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Herbert S. Bigelow (1913)

Herbert Seely Bigelow (* 4. January 1870 in Elkhart , Elkhart County , Indiana ; †  11. November 1951 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1937 to 1939 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for the second  congressional district of the state of Ohio.

biography

Herbert Bigelow was born in Elkhart. He attended public schools and Oberlin College in Oberlin . In 1894 he graduated from Case Western Reserve University . He moved to Cincinnati and studied at the Lane Theological Seminary theology . In 1895 he was ordained a priest . He then became a priest for the Congregational Church on Vine Street in Cincinnati. In 1902 his election as Ohio Secretary of State failed . In 1912 he was chairman of the 4th Ohio Constituent Assembly. In 1913 and 1914 he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives . He was a member of the Cincinnati City Council in 1936.

In 1936 , Bigelow was elected to the US House of Representatives as representative of Ohio's 2nd Congressional District. There he sat for a legislative period. In 1939 he left the Congress. In 1940 and 1941 he was again on the Cincinnati City Council. He became a priest of his ancestral community again. Bigelow died in Cincinnati in 1951. His remains were cremated and scattered over his farm near Forestville .

Web links

  • Herbert S. Bigelow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)