Joseph F. Ryter

Joseph Francis Ryter (born February 4, 1914 in Hartford , Connecticut , † February 5, 1978 in West Hartford , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1945 and 1947 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Ryter attended his home public schools and St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield . He then studied at Trinity College in Hartford until 1935 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1938, he began to work in Hartford in his new profession. Between 1939 and 1941 he worked as an administrative clerk at the Police Court and then until 1943 at the Hartford City Court.

Ryter was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1940 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a third term. In the 1944 congressional election, held for Connecticut's sixth state seat, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Republican B. J. Monkiewicz on January 3, 1945 . Since he lost to Antoni Sadlak in the subsequent elections in 1946 , Ryter was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1947 , which was determined by the events of World War II and the immediate post-war period.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Joseph Ryter withdrew from politics and worked as a lawyer again. He died on February 5, 1978, the day after his 64th birthday, in West Hartford and was buried in Bloomfield.

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SURNAME	Ryter, Joseph F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ryter, Joseph Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hartford , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH	5th February 1978
Place of death	West Hartford , Connecticut