Thaddeus M. Machrowicz

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Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz (born August 21, 1899 in Gostyń , Poland , †  February 17, 1970 in Bloomfield , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1951 and 1961 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1902 Thaddeus Machrowicz came with his parents to the United States, where the family first in Chicago ( Illinois settled). Later they moved to Milwaukee ( Wisconsin ) on. He received American citizenship in 1910. Machrowicz attended the public schools in Milwaukee and then from 1912 to 1916, the Alliance College in Cambridge Springs ( Pennsylvania ). He then studied at the University of Chicago until 1917 . Between 1917 and 1920 he was a lieutenant in the Polish army in exile during the First World War , which consisted of American volunteers and was deployed in Canada , France and Poland. In 1920 and 1921 he was a member of the American Advisory Commission for the Polish Government. At that time he also acted as a reporter for the unrest in his Polish homeland. He then continued his education in the United States.

After studying law at the Detroit College of Law and being admitted to the bar in 1924, he began working in his new profession in Detroit . From 1934 to 1936 he was a lawyer for the city of Hamtramck ; in 1938 and 1939 he served as legal advisor to the Michigan State Government's Public Utilities Commission . Between 1942 and 1950 Machrowicz was a judge in Hamtramck.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1950 congressional election , Machrowicz 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, 1951 . He spoke Polish and was able to rely on the region's strong Polish immigrant community.

In 1951/52 he was a member of the Madden Commission , the committee to investigate the Katyn massacre . As part of the counter-offensive of the communist leadership of the People's Republic of Poland against the Madden Commission, he was attacked by the Warsaw press, which was subject to party control, as a representative of the "Hitler sympathizers in the USA".

After five re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on September 18, 1961 . During this time the Korean War fell and the civil rights movement began . In 1951 the 22nd amendment was passed and the 23rd amendment in 1961 . Machrowicz resigned from his mandate in September 1961 after being appointed judge in the federal district court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He held this office until his death on February 17, 1970 in Bloomfield.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Witold Wasilewski, propaganda kłamstwa counterproductive "Komisja katyńska" Izby Reprezentantów USA, in: Zeszyty Katyńskie, 23 (2008), S. 104th
  2. ^ The Katyn Forest Massacre US Government Printing Office. Washington 1952, Vol. 3, p. 220.
  3. ↑ Tomasz Wolsza: "To co wiedziałem przekracza swją grozą najśmielsze fantazje". Wojenne i powojenne losy Polaków wizytujących Katyń w 1943 roku. Warsaw 2015, p. 142.

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personal data
SURNAME Machrowicz, Thaddeus M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Machrowicz, Thaddeus Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Gostyń , Poland
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1970
Place of death Bloomfield , Michigan