Wiley Mayne

Wiley Mayne

Wiley Mayne (born January 19, 1917 in Sanborn , O'Brien County , Iowa , †  May 27, 2007 in Sioux City , Iowa) was an American politician . Between 1967 and 1975 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Wiley Mayne attended public schools in his home country. He then studied at Harvard University until 1938 . After a subsequent law degree at the same university and at the Iowa Law School and his admission to the bar in 1941, he began to practice in his new profession. Between 1941 and 1943 Mayne worked as an investigator for the FBI . He then served in the US Navy from 1943 to 1946 during World War II . He was used on board a destroyer in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific. After the war, he worked as a lawyer in a joint law firm in Sioux City. In the years 1956 to 1960 he was involved in the unification of the laws of the state of Iowa. From 1963 to 1964 he was chairman of the Iowa Bar Association. Between 1964 and 1966 he was also the chairman of the Appeals Committee at the state's Supreme Court.

Politically, Mayne was a member of the Republican Party . In 1966 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Iowa . There he succeeded Stanley L. Greigg of the Democratic Party on January 3, 1967 , whom he had defeated in the elections. After three confirmations, he was able to complete four consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1975 . He was a member of the legal and agricultural committees. During this time, the end of the Vietnam War , the first moon landing and the Watergate affair took place . In addition, the 24th and 25th amendments to the Constitution were discussed and passed. In 1973 he was an American delegate to the Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome .

Mayne's political decline began with his behavior in the Watergate affair. He was one of ten Republican Congressmen who refused to go into impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon because he believed there was not enough evidence. That cost him re-election in 1974. Even his about-face on this question changed nothing. After serving in the House of Representatives, Mayne returned to working as a lawyer in Sioux City. He was also president of the Sioux City Symphonic Association and curator and church elder of the First Presbyterian Church . Wiley Mayne died in Sioux City in May 2007. He had been married to Betty Dodson since 1942, with whom he had three children.

Web links

• Wiley Mayne in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Wiley Mayne in the database of Find a Grave (English)