Leonard W. Schuetz

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Leonard William Schuetz (born November 16, 1887 in Posen , German Empire , †  February 13, 1944 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1931 and 1944 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Leonard Schuetz was born in 1887 in what is now the Polish city of Posen. The following year he came to Chicago with his father , where he attended public schools. He then attended Lane Technical High School and Bryant and Stratton Business College , also in Chicago. Until 1906 he worked as a stenographer and secretary. He then worked in the management of Swift & Co. In 1923 he founded the construction company Schuetz Construction Company , of which he became president and treasurer. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1930 congressional elections , Schuetz was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the seventh constituency of Illinois, where he succeeded M. Alfred Michaelson on March 4, 1931 . After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on February 13, 1944 . Since 1933 the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there; from 1941 the work of the congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War .

Web links

  • Leonard W. Schuetz in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)