Samuel Beakes

Samuel Beakes

Samuel Willard Beakes (born January 11, 1861 in Burlingham , Sullivan County , New York , †  February 9, 1927 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1919 he twice represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Beakes attended Wallkill Academy in Middletown . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission as a lawyer in 1883, he began to work in Westerville ( Ohio ) in his new profession. There he was in 1884 publisher and editor of the newspaper "Westerville Review". He also edited newspapers in Adrian and Ann Arbor from 1884 to 1906 .

Politically, Beakes was a member of the Democratic Party . He served as Mayor of Ann Arbor from 1888 to 1890. In the following years he held various other offices in this city. From 1891 to 1893 and from 1903 to 1905 he was city treasurer and from 1894 to 1898 post office keeper . Between 1906 and 1913 he was a city tax assessor. In 1916, Beakes took part as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis , at which US President Woodrow Wilson was nominated for re-election.

In the 1912 congressional elections , Beakes was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second constituency of Michigan, where he succeeded William Wedemeyer on March 4, 1913 . After re-election in 1914, he was initially able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1917 . During this time the 16th and 17th amendments to the constitution were passed there. In the 1916 election he was defeated by Republican Mark R. Bacon , who succeeded him in Congress on March 4, 1917. But Samuel Beakes appealed against this election result. After this was granted, he was able to take his seat in the House of Representatives again on December 13, 1917 and oust Bacon from Congress. By March 3, 1919, he ended the current legislative period there. This time was largely shaped by the events of the First World War .

In the 1918 congressional elections, Beakes was defeated by Republican Earl C. Michener . After leaving the US House of Representatives, he stayed in the federal capital. Between April and July 1919 he worked for the US Department of Commerce ; from 1919 to 1927 he was a member of the Federal Veterans Committee. Samuel Beakes died in Washington on February 9, 1927 and was buried in Ann Arbor.

Web links

• Samuel Beakes in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel Beakes in the database of Find a Grave (English)