Thomas F. Konop

Thomas Frank Konop (born August 17, 1879 in Franklin , Wisconsin , †  October 17, 1964 in San Pierre , Indiana ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1917 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Konop attended Two Rivers High School , Oshkosh State Normal School, and Northern Illinois College of Law . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and his admission as a lawyer in 1904, he began to work in Kewaunee (Wisconsin) in his new profession. Between 1905 and 1911 he was a district attorney in Kewaunee County . He then moved his residence and law firm to Green Bay .

Politically, Konop was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1910 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Republican Gustav Küstermann on March 4, 1911 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1917 . From 1913 he was chairman of the committee to control expenditure on public buildings.

In the 1916 election, Konop was defeated by Republican David G. Classon . In the following years he worked in Madison as a lawyer. Between 1917 and 1922 he served on the industrial commission of the state of Wisconsin. At the same time he was also a member of the training council of his state. In 1922 Konop moved to Milwaukee , where he worked as a lawyer until 1923. Between 1923 and 1941 he was Dean of the Law School of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He remained a professor at this university until his retirement in 1950. He lived in South Bend until 1962 . He died in San Pierre on October 17, 1964 and was buried in South Bend.

Web links

• Thomas F. Konop in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas F. Konop in the database of Find a Grave (English)