Verner Main

Verner Wright Main (born December 16, 1885 in Ashley , Delaware County , Ohio , †  July 6, 1965 in Battle Creek , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Verner Main attended public schools in his home country including Marion High School . He then studied at Hillsdale College in Michigan until 1907 . Between 1908 and 1912 he worked as a teacher at various schools in this state. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission to the bar in 1914, he began to work in Battle Creek in his new profession. During the First World War he was in Louisville ( Kentucky ) in a training camp for officers of the US Army . Since the war ended before the end of his training, he was not served at the front. In 1926, Main became assistant district attorney in Calhoun County .

Politically, Main was a member of the Republican Party . From 1927 to 1929 he was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives ; between 1929 and 1932 he was a member of the Battle Creek School Board. After the death of Congressman Henry M. Kimball , Main was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the due by-election for the third seat of Michigan , where he took up his new mandate on December 17, 1935. Since he was not nominated for re-election by his party in the regular elections of 1936 , he was only able to end the current legislative period of his predecessor in Congress until January 3, 1937 . During this time, further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government, which Main's party was rather opposed to.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Verner Main worked as a lawyer again. He died on July 6, 1965 in Battle Creek, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Verner Main in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Verner Main in the database of Find a Grave (English)