Lewis Baxter threshold brook
Lewis Baxter threshold brook (born September 20, 1894 in Superior , Wisconsin , † June 10, 1948 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician .
Early life
Lewis threshold Bach moved in 1902 at the age of eight with his parents to Spokane in Washington State , where he spent the rest of his childhood and youth. Spokane Schwellenbach attended elementary school and high school and then studied at the prestigious University of Washington in Seattle , where he in 1917 with a degree in Law acquired and continued to work there then. A year later he was drafted as a soldier in the First World War and served in the 12th Regiment of the American Infantry . In 1919 he was honorably discharged with the rank of corporal , after which he practiced as a lawyer in Seattle.
Political career
In 1932, he ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for governor of Washington, but just two years later he was elected to the United States Senate for Washington . Quellenbach served from January 3, 1935 to December 16, 1940, before he voluntarily resigned from his office. In 1938 he was envoy to the Inter-Parliamentary Union in The Hague .
In 1940 he was appointed federal judge for the eastern boroughs of Washington and served until 1945. During his tenure as judge, he was involved in the top-secret Manhattan Project and the resulting atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . However, it is unlikely that threshold brook was involved in the fatal operation.
On July 1, 1945, he was appointed fifth Secretary of Labor of the United States to succeed Frances Perkins . Under his leadership and that of President Harry S. Truman , the US was economically driven out of World War II . Maurice J. Tobin was appointed his successor in 1948 .
Private life and death
As a senator, in December 1935, he married his secretary Anne Duffy, a woman from Chicago . The couple had no children. He was a member of the American Legion for many years .
Quellenbach died in June 1948 in the Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington. He was the only labor minister to date to die during his tenure. Threshold Bach is buried in Washelli Cemetery in Seattle.
Web links
- Lewis Baxter threshold brook in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
- Lewis Baxter Bäumenbach at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia (English)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quellenbach, Lewis Baxter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Threshold brook, Lewis B. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Superior , Wisconsin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1948 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |