Raymond Joseph Cannon

Raymond Joseph Cannon (born August 26, 1894 in Ironwood , Gogebic County , Michigan , †  November 25, 1951 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1939 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Raymond Cannon's parents died when he was only six months old. Therefore, he grew up in a children's home. He first attended the public schools in his home country and taught himself as a teacher in Minocqua (Wisconsin) between 1910 and 1911 . From 1908 to 1922 he was also a professional baseball player . After studying law at Marquette University in Milwaukee and being admitted to the bar in 1914, he began working in his new profession in Milwaukee. In 1930 he unsuccessfully applied for the post of Justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Politically, Cannon was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1932 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded John C. Schafer of the Republican Party on March 4, 1933 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1939 . During this time, many of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed, repealing the 18th Amendment from 1919. It was about the prohibition law. From 1935 onwards, Cannon was chairman of the Federal Law Revision Committee.

In the run-up to the 1938 election , Cannon was no longer nominated for another term by his party. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to work as a lawyer. In 1940 and 1942 he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for gubernatorial elections . In 1944 he also missed the intended nomination for the upcoming congressional elections. He died in Milwaukee on November 25, 1951. Raymond Cannon was married to Alice Carey, who had three children.

Web links

• Raymond Joseph Cannon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Raymond Joseph Cannon in the database of Find a Grave (English)