James V. Heidinger

James V. Heidinger, 1947

James Vandaveer Heidinger (born July 17, 1882 in Mount Erie , Wayne County , Illinois , †  March 22, 1945 in Phoenix , Arizona ) was an American politician . Between 1941 and 1945 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Heidinger attended the public schools in his home country and then the North Illinois Normal School in DeKalb . He then studied at Valparaiso University in Indiana . In the following years he worked as a teacher in Wayne County. After a subsequent law degree at the Northern Illinois College of Law in Dixon and his admission as a lawyer in 1908, he began to work in Fairfield in this profession. Between 1914 and 1926, Heidinger served as a district judge in Wayne County. From 1927 to 1933 he was the Assistant Attorney General of Illinois. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . In June 1928 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City , where Herbert Hoover was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1940 congressional elections , Heidinger was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 24th  constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded Democrat Claude V. Parsons on January 3, 1941 . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on March 22, 1945 . This time was marked by the events of the Second World War .

Web links

• James V. Heidinger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James V. Heidinger in the database of Find a Grave (English)