Irvine Lenroot

Irvine Lenroot

Irvine Luther Lenroot (born January 31, 1869 in Superior , Wisconsin , † January 26, 1949 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress .

Life

Irvine Lenroot was born in Superior, Wisconsin, the fourth of six children to Lars and Fredrika Regina Lenroot. His parents, who came to the United States from Sweden in the 1850s , had changed their name from Linderoth to Lenroot .

After graduating from high school in 1884, Lenroot worked with his older brother harvesting timber before setting up his own small business in Duluth, Minnesota in 1887 . He worked as a stenographer for a law firm in the 1890s , and as a court reporter at Douglas County Court from 1893 to 1906 . He was inducted into the Wisconsin State Bar in 1898. After three years of practicing law in his hometown Superior, Lenroot ran successfully for the Republican Party for a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1901 . He was a member of parliament until 1907 and was speaker of parliament from 1903 until he left.

In 1908 Lenroot also successfully applied for a seat in the United States House of Representatives , in which he served from March 1909 to April 1918. After the death of US Senator Paul O. Husting in October 1917, Lenroot ran for his now vacant seat in the United States Senate . In the presidential election in 1920 Lenroot by US Senator was Warren G. Harding as his running mate - as a candidate for the office of Vice President of the United States considered, but the delegates at the - national convention of the Republican who in Chicago ( Illinois met) decidedly different and nominated Calvin Coolidge , the more politically experienced and better known as the Governor of Massachusetts, for the office. Since Harding died in August 1923, Lenroot might have become the 30th President of the United States . In 1920 Lenroot was re-elected senator with 41.6 percentage points of the vote. In 1924 he briefly considered running for the office of US President himself, but hardly pursued this plan. In 1926 Lenroot was not re-run by his party as a candidate for the Senate, as they nominated Governor John J. Blaine .

In 1929, three years after leaving the Senate, US President Herbert Hoover appointed him as a judge at the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals , the federal court for consumer protection and patent law, where he succeeded Orion Metcalf Barber . He was in charge of this until his retirement in 1944.

Lenroot was married twice. On October 22, 1890, he and Clara Pamelia McClough entered the altar, and the marriage resulted in two daughters. After the death of his wife on April 4, 1942, he entered the state of marriage with Eleonore von Eltz on February 4, 1943, with which he was married until his death, six years later.

Just five days before his 80th birthday died Lenroot in Washington, DC on cancer .

Web links

Commons : Irvine Lenroot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Irvine Lenroot in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Irvine Lenroot at The Political Graveyard