Walter C. Ploeser

Walter Christian Ploeser (born January 7, 1907 in St. Louis , Missouri , †  November 17, 1993 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1941 and 1949 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Walter Ploeser attended public schools in his home country and in Wyoming . He then studied at the City College of Law and Finance in St. Louis. He then worked there from 1922 in the insurance industry. In 1933 he started his own company. In 1935 he called the Marine Underwriters Corp. into life, of which he was a member of the board. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . He was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives in 1931 and 1932 .

In the 1940 congressional election , Ploeser was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the twelfth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Charles Arthur Anderson on January 3, 1941 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1949 . These were shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. From 1947 he was chairman of the Select Committee on Small Business .

In 1948 Ploeser was defeated by the Democrat Raymond W. Karst . In 1964 and 1968 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions . Otherwise he continued to work in the insurance industry. He became a director of the Webster Groves Trust Company . Between 1957 and 1958 he was the successor to Arthur A. Ageton Ambassador of the United States in Paraguay ; between 1970 and 1972 he practiced this activity in Costa Rica . He was also Chairman of the Salvation Army Supervisory Board from 1967 to 1969 . Walter Ploeser died on November 17, 1993 in St. Louis.

Web links

• Walter C. Ploeser in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Walter C. Ploeser in the database of Find a Grave (English)