Stephen Bolles

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Stephen Bolles

Stephen Bolles (born June 25, 1866 in Springboro , Crawford County , Pennsylvania , †  July 8, 1941 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1941 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Stephen Bolles attended the public schools of his home country and then the State Normal School of Pennsylvania until 1888 . He then studied law at Milton College in Wisconsin. Apparently he never worked as a lawyer. Between 1893 and 1901 he worked in the states of Ohio , Pennsylvania and New York in the newspaper business, among other things as a reporter, correspondent, editor and publisher. During the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901 he ran the press center. He was an eyewitness to the attack on President William McKinley .

Politically, Bolles was a member of the Republican Party . In 1894 he was its chairman in the eleventh congressional electoral district of Ohio. He was also on the party executive of the city of Toledo . In 1896 he was his party's campaign leader in the 26th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. From 1902 to 1903, Bolles published the Buffalo Enquirer newspaper. In the following years he held higher offices at various exhibitions. Later Bolles also became a writer and began a new career as a businessman. Between 1907 and 1919 he was in the stock exchange business in Atlanta ( Georgia worked). In 1920 he moved to Janesville , Wisconsin. There he worked again in the newspaper business. He also continued his political career. In 1928 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City , where Herbert Hoover was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1938 congressional elections , Stephen Bolles was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first district of Wisconsin, where he succeeded Thomas Ryum Amlie on January 3, 1939 . After re-election in 1940, he could remain in Congress until his death on July 8, 1941 . After a by-election, his mandate fell to Lawrence H. Smith .

Web links

  • Stephen Bolles in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)