Walter Newton

Walter Newton

Walter Hughes Newton (born October 10, 1880 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , †  August 10, 1941 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1929 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Walter Newton attended the public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Minnesota and his admission as a lawyer in 1905, he began to work in Minneapolis in his new profession. Between 1914 and 1918 he worked for the Hennepin County District Attorney .

Politically, Newton was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1918 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Minnesota , where he succeeded Ernest Lundeen on March 4, 1919 . After five re-elections, he could remain in Congress until June 30, 1929 . During this time, the 18th and 19th amendments to the constitution were passed there. It was about the ban on alcohol trafficking and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage .

On June 30, 1929, Newton stepped down from Congress to serve as the private secretary to President Herbert C. Hoover . He held this post until the end of Hoover's tenure on March 3, 1933. He then became a board member of the Smithsonian Institution . Until 1934 he was on the board of directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank . In the following years Newton worked again as a lawyer. He also worked as a writer. In 1936, he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. In 1938 he became an arbitrator in bankruptcy proceedings. Walter Newton held this position until his death on August 10, 1941.

Web links

Commons : Walter H. Newton  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Walter Newton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Walter Newton in the database of Find a Grave (English)