Rudolph G. Tenerowicz

Rudolph Tenerowicz (left) with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz (born June 14, 1890 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , †  August 31, 1963 in Hamtramck , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1943 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1892, Rudolph Tenerowicz came with his parents from Hungary to the United States where they are in Adrian ( Pennsylvania settled). There he attended public schools. He then studied in various locations in the states of New York and Michigan. After a subsequent medical degree at Loyola University Chicago and his license as a doctor in 1912, he began to work in Chicago until 1923 in his new profession. During the First World War he was a first lieutenant in the medical service of the US Army in 1917 and 1918 . Between 1919 and 1934 he was a captain in the army medical reserve. In 1923, Rudolph Tenerowicz moved his residence and medical practice to Hamtramck, Michigan. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1928 and 1932 and again from 1936 to 1938 he was mayor of Hamtramck. He served on the County Board of Supervisors in Wayne County for seven years . In the 1938 congressional elections , Tenerowicz was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded George G. Sadowski on January 3, 1939 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until January 3, 1943 . There, further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government by 1941 . Since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the ensuing entry into the war by the United States, the work of Congress has also been determined by the events of World War II .

In 1942, Tenerowicz was no longer nominated for re-election by the Democrats. He then went over to the Republican Party . In 1948, 1950, 1952 and 1954 he ran unsuccessfully as their candidate for his return to Congress. Otherwise he worked again as a doctor in Hamtramck. He died there on August 31, 1963. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Rudolph Tenerowicz was married to Margaret Agnes McGuire Tenerowicz, with whom they had a daughter, since 1937. His wife brought more children into the family from a previous marriage.

Web links

Commons : Rudolph G. Tenerowicz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Rudolph G. Tenerowicz in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Rudolph G. Tenerowicz in the Find a Grave database (English)