Hubert H. Peavey

Hubert H. Peavey (1923)

Hubert Haskell Peavey (born January 12, 1881 in Adams , Mower County , Minnesota , †  November 21, 1937 in Washburn , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1935 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1886, Hubert Peavey moved to Redwood Falls with his parents . There he attended public schools including the local high school. He then studied at the Pillsbury Academy in Owatonna . Between 1900 and 1904, Peavey worked in various professions in Nebraska , Kansas and the Oklahoma Territory . Then he moved to South Dakota where he got into the real estate business. In 1909, Peavey moved to Washburn, Wisconsin. He also worked in the real estate industry in his new home. He also began a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

In 1911 Peavey became a Washburn Town Councilor; In 1912 he was elected mayor of this place. He held this office again between 1920 and 1922. Between 1913 and 1915, Peavey was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly . In 1915 he also became editor of the Washburn News newspaper. During the First World War he set up an infantry unit of the National Guard of his state, in which he himself was a captain. After the war he continued his journalistic activities in Washburn. In 1920 he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the congressional elections.

In the congressional elections of 1922 he was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eleventh constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Adolphus Peter Nelson on March 4, 1923 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1935 . Since his district was dissolved in 1932, he represented the tenth district from 1933 as the successor to James A. Frear . During Peavey's tenure in the US House of Representatives, the 20th and 21st amendments were passed there. Since 1933, many of the New Deal laws of the new federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt have been introduced to Congress, where they have been approved by a majority of MPs. Peavey's Republican Party was rather opposed to these laws.

In the elections of 1934 Hubert Peavey lost to Bernard J. Gehrmann . In the following years until his death on November 21, 1937 in Washburn, he worked again in the real estate business. He also ran a ranch.

Web links

• Hubert H. Peavey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Hubert H. Peavey in the database of Find a Grave (English)