James Robert Mann (politician, 1856)

James Robert Mann (1909)

James Robert Mann (born October 20, 1856 in Bloomington , Illinois , †  November 30, 1922 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1922 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Robert Mann attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1876 at the University of Illinois at Urbana . After a subsequent law degree at the Union College of Law in Chicago and his admission to the bar in 1881, he began to work in this profession in Chicago. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In Chicago he also held a number of local offices. Between 1892 and 1896 he was a member of the local city council. In 1894 he chaired the Illinois regional Republican Party Convention. In the years 1895 and 1902 he also chaired the district party conventions in Chicago.

In the congressional election of 1896 , Mann was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of Illinois, where he succeeded J. Frank Aldrich on March 4, 1897 . After 13 re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on November 30, 1922 . Since 1903 he represented there as the successor to John J. Feely the second district of his state. Between 1911 and 1919 he led the Republican Congress faction as a minority leader . He was also temporarily chairman of the First Electoral Committee, the Committee on External and Internal Trade and the Committee that dealt with women's suffrage. During Mann's time as Congressman, the Spanish-American War of 1898 and World War I fell . In addition, the 16th , 17th , 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1913 and 1919 and 1920 respectively .

Web links

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• James Robert Mann in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)