John C. Kluczynski

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John C. Kluczynski

John Carl Kluczynski (born February 15, 1896 in Chicago , Illinois , †  January 26, 1975 there ) was an American politician . Between 1951 and 1975 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Kluczynski attended public schools in his home country. In the years 1918 and 1919 he was a corporal in the US Army in the final stages of the First World War . He was used as a member of an artillery unit on the European theater of war. He later got into the catering business in Chicago. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1933 and 1948 he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives ; in 1948 and 1949 he was a member of the State Senate .

In the 1950 congressional elections , Kluczynski was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Illinois , where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1951, as the successor to the late Martin Gorski . After twelve re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on January 26, 1975 . During his time in Congress, the Cold War , the Korean War , the Vietnam War and, domestically, the civil rights movement and the 1974 Watergate affair fell .

Web links

  • John C. Kluczynski in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)