John Hyde Sweet

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John Hyde Sweet (born September 1, 1880 in Milford , Otsego County , New York , † April 4, 1964 in Wickenburg , Arizona ) was an American politician . Between 1940 and 1941 he represented the first constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1885, John Sweet came to Palmyra , Nebraska. There he attended public schools including Palmyra High School . He then studied at the University of Nebraska and Lincoln Business College .

Between 1899 and 1900, Sweet was a court reporter in western Nebraska. From 1902 to 1909 he worked as a grocer in Nebraska City . Then he got into the newspaper business and published a newspaper. At that time he was a member of the Progressive Party , whose national convention he attended in 1912, at which the former President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. He later joined the Republican Party , from which the Progressive Party originally emerged.

After the death of Congressman George H. Heinke , John Sweet was elected as his successor in the US House of Representatives in the by-election. There he ended the legislative period that had begun between April 19, 1940 and January 3, 1941. For the regular congressional elections of 1940 Sweet no longer ran.

After his tenure in Congress was over , John Sweet returned to his private affairs. Politically, he no longer appeared. He died in Arizona in April 1964 and was buried in Nebraska City.

Web links

  • John Hyde Sweet in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)