Lee E. Geyer

Lee Edward Geyer (born September 9, 1888 in Wetmore , Nemaha County , Kansas , † October 11, 1941 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . From 1939 to 1941 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lee Geyer attended the public schools in his home country. From 1908 he was a teacher at various schools in Nemaha County. During the First World War he served as a soldier in the US Army in an officer training camp. He then worked from 1919 to 1938 in the states of Kansas, Arizona and California as a teacher. At the same time he continued his own education. So he graduated from Baker University in Baldwin City in 1922 . He also studied at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles . Politically, he joined the Democratic Partyand from 1934 to 1936 he was a member of the California State Assembly .

In the 1938 congressional election , Geyer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the 17th electoral district of California, where he succeeded the late Charles J. Colden on January 3, 1939 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his death on October 11, 1941 , where the last New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed. In July 1940, Geyer was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Roosevelt was nominated for a third term.

Lee E. Geyer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)