Thomas Ryum Amlie

Thomas Ryum Amlie (1939)

Thomas Ryum Amlie (born April 17, 1897 in Binford , Griggs County , North Dakota , †  August 22, 1973 in Madison , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1931 and 1933 and again from 1935 to 1939 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Amlie attended public schools in his home country including Cooperstown High School . He studied first at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks and then at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his admission as a lawyer in 1923, he began to work in Beloit in his new profession. In 1927 he moved his office and residence to Elkhorn .

Politically, Amlie was then a member of the Republican Party . After the death of Congressman Henry A. Cooper , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the due by-election for the first Wisconsin seat . There he took up his new mandate on October 13, 1931. Since he was no longer nominated by his party in the following regular congressional elections in 1932 , he was only able to end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1933 . On March 4, 1933, George Washington Blanchard , who was nominated and then elected in his place, succeeded him.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Thomas Amlie left the Republican Party and became a member of the regional Wisconsin Progressive Party , which was very strong in his home state at the time. In the 1934 elections he was re- elected to Congress as their candidate in the first constituency of Wisconsin. There he replaced George Blanchard on January 3, 1935. After a re-election in 1936, he was able to spend two terms in Congress until January 3, 1939. During this time, many of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

In 1938 Amlie decided not to run for the US House of Representatives again. Instead, he unsuccessfully applied for a seat in the US Senate for the Progressive Party . In 1939 he was appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission by President Roosevelt . Thomas Amlie refused this appointment. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He also became a writer. He spent the last years of his life in Madison, where he died on August 22, 1973.

Web links

• Thomas Ryum Amlie in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Thomas Ryum Amélie in the database of Find a Grave (English)