Herman F. Krueger

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Herman Fred Krueger (born April 5, 1894 in Bern , Kansas , †  August 19, 1991 in Powell , Wyoming ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ). From 1937 to 1939 he was President ( Speaker ) of the House of Representatives from Wyoming .

Career

Herman Krueger was the son of Otto Krueger, who immigrated from Brandenburg , and his wife Virginia. His father worked for a mining company and moved with his family briefly to Wyoming, where Virginia Krueger did not feel at home, which is why another move to Nebraska followed a little later . There the young Herman graduated from school and then worked as a teacher. He served in the US Army in Texas , where he worked in a training camp near San Antonio during the First World War . After the United States entered the war , he applied for a job as a fighter pilot. After he had received his training in Austin , he was brought by ship to France and finally assigned to the first air squadron, deployed in Italy . He flew Italian Caproni - bomber on Austrian territory and was awarded for his perilous missions later, the War Cross of Italy.

After returning from the war, Krueger settled in Wyoming from 1920. He worked near Garland in the vehicle trade and in the irrigation industry and married in 1925 in Deer Lodge ( Montana ) Celia Gordon. He also served as the local head of the American Legion .

In 1930, Krueger, a moderate Democrat, was elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives for Park County , to which he was a member until 1939 after multiple re-elections. In his last term of office for the time being, he was appointed speaker of the parliamentary chamber. After he had refused to run again in 1938, he completed another term as a member of parliament between 1941 and 1943. After retiring from politics, he became a member of the State Board of Aeronautics and President of the Wyoming Soil Conservation Association . He worked as a rancher until 1964 . In his retirement, he initially moved between Yuma ( Arizona ) and Lovell before settling permanently in Wyoming in the mid-1980s. He died in Powell on August 19, 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nancy Weatherly Sharp, James Roger Sharp, Charles F. Ritter, Jon L. Wakelyn: American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911-1994 . Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Krueger, Herman F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krueger, Herman Fred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern , Kansas
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1991
Place of death Powell , Wyoming