Marion Zioncheck

Marion Anthony Zioncheck (born December 5, 1901 in Kęty , Galicia , †  August 7, 1936 in Seattle , Washington ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1936 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Marion Zioncheck was born in 1901 in Kęty, which then belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy and is now part of Poland . In 1905 his parents emigrated to America with him. The family settled in Seattle, Washington state. Zioncheck attended the public schools of his new home and then studied until 1919 at the University of Washington in Seattle. After studying law at this university and being admitted to the bar in 1929, he began working in his new profession in Seattle.

Politically, Zioncheck became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1932 and 1934 he was a delegate at their regional party conventions in Washington State. In the 1932 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first constituency of Washington state , where he succeeded Ralph Horr on March 4, 1933 . After re-election in 1934, he could remain in Congress until his death on August 7, 1936 . There he stood up for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal policy. In 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed, repealing the 18th Amendment from 1919. It was about the prohibition law .

Marion Zioncheck died under mysterious circumstances on August 7, 1936. He fell out of a window on the fifth floor of a building in Seattle where he had an office. He also left a suicide note. While it all looked like a suicide, relatives and acquaintances believed it was a fake suicide . They believed Zioncheck had been murdered. The background to his death was never clarified.

Web links

• Marion Zioncheck in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Marion Zioncheck in the database of Find a Grave (English)