Ulysses Samuel Guyer

Ulysses Samuel Guyer (left) as a member of the Judiciary Committee with MPs Emanuel Celler (right) and Hatton W. Sumners (1937)

Ulysses Samuel Guyer (born December 13, 1868 in Paw Paw , Lee County , Illinois , † June 5, 1943 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician.

Guyer studied at Lane University in Lecompton , Kansas and attended the School of Law at the University of Kansas at Lawrence . In 1902 he was accepted into the bar and then practiced in Kansas City . After serving as a judge in the City Court from 1907 to 1909, Guyer became Mayor of Kansas City from 1909 to 1910.

After the death of Congressman Edward C. Little , Guyer was elected as a Republican to Congress to fill the vacant seat, and thus represented the state of Kansas from November 4, 1924 to March 3, 1925 in the US House of Representatives . He did not run for another term and returned to Kansas City, where he began practicing again. In 1926 Guyer was re-elected to the US House of Representatives and belonged to it from March 3, 1927 until his death on June 5, 1943 in Bethesda. During this time he was one of those MPs who initiated the ultimately unsuccessful impeachment proceedings against the corrupt federal judge Harold Louderback in 1933 .

Guyer was buried in Fairview Cemetery in St. John, Kansas. In that city he had previously been the director of St. John High School and from 1896-1901 the superintendent of all municipal schools.

Web links

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