Milton A. Romjue

Milton A. Romjue

Milton Andrew Romjue (born December 5, 1874 in Love Lake , Macon County , Missouri , †  January 23, 1968 in Macon , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1943 he represented the state of Missouri twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Milton Romjue attended his home public schools including Kirksville State Normal School . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Missouri at Columbia and his admission as a lawyer in 1904, he began to work in Macon in this profession. Between 1904 and 1905 he was the legal representative of the Higbee community ; from 1907 to 1915 Romjue worked as a probate judge in Macon County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1920 and 1940 he took part as a delegate at their regional party conventions in Missouri. In 1928 he was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Houston , where Al Smith was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1916 congressional election , Romjue was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded James Tilghman Lloyd on March 4, 1917 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1921 . 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 .

In 1920, Milton Romjue was defeated by Republican Frank C. Millspaugh . In the elections of 1922 he was re-elected to Congress, where he was able to complete ten further terms between March 4, 1923 and January 3, 1943. From 1939 to 1943 he was chairman of the Postal Committee. In the 1930s, Congress passed most of the federal government's New Deal laws under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , the work of Congress has also been shaped by the events of World War II .

In 1942 Romjue was not re-elected. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He was also active in agriculture and especially in the livestock sector. Milton Romjue died on January 23, 1968 in Macon, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Milton A. Romjue in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Milton A. Romjue in the database of Find a Grave (English)