Louis W. Fairfield

Louis W. Fairfield

Louis William Fairfield (born October 15, 1858 in Wapakoneta , Ohio , †  February 20, 1930 in Joliet , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1925 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1866, Louis Fairfield came to Allen County , Indiana, where his family settled on a farm near Lima . He attended the public schools in his new home and moved to Middle Point , Ohio in 1872 . There he taught as a teacher for half a year. He then studied until 1876 at Ohio Northern University in Ada . Until 1888 he worked as a teacher again. At the same time he continued his own education at various schools. In 1881 and 1882, Fairfield published the Hardin County Republican newspaper, which appeared in Kenton .

Since 1885 Fairfield lived in Angola, Indiana, where he helped found the Tri-State College . Between 1885 and 1917 he was vice president and lecturer at this educational establishment. Politically, Fairfield was a member of the Republican Party . In 1912 he ran unsuccessfully for the Indiana Senate . In the congressional elections of 1916 he was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the twelfth constituency of his state , where he succeeded Democrat Cyrus Cline on March 4, 1917 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1925 . During this time the First World War fell . The 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1919 and 1920 . It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage . From 1923 to 1925, Fairfield was chairman of the Committee on Island Affairs.

In 1924 he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. In the following years he lived in Angola, where he temporarily worked as a lecturer. Louis Fairfield died on February 20, 1930 while visiting Illinois and was buried in Angola.

Web links

• Louis W. Fairfield in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Louis W. Fairfield in the database of Find a Grave (English)