Louis C. Rabaut

Louis C. Rabaut

Louis Charles Rabaut (born December 5, 1886 in Detroit , Michigan , †  November 12, 1961 in Hamtramck , Michigan) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1961 he represented the state of Michigan twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Louis Rabaut attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1909 the Detroit College . After completing a law degree at the Detroit College of Law and his admission to the bar in 1912, he began to work in his new profession in Detroit. He also got into the building trade. Politically, Rabaut was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1936 and 1940 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention , where President respectively Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for re-election.

In the 1934 congressional elections , he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 14th constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Carl M. Weideman on January 3, 1935 , whom he had defeated in the primary. After five re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1947 . There, further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government by 1941 . Since December 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War . In 1939 Rabaut was an American delegate to the Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

In 1946 Louis Rabaut was defeated by the Republican Harold F. Youngblood . However, he managed to return to the US House of Representatives in the 1948 congressional elections . After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on November 12, 1961. During this time the Cold War , the Korean War and the civil rights movement began . In addition, the 22nd and 23rd amendments to the constitution were passed. After Rabaut's death, his seat fell in a by-election to Harold M. Ryan .

Web links

• Louis C. Rabaut in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Louis C. Rabaut in the database of Find a Grave (English)