William H. Dieterich

William H. Dieterich (1937)

William Henry Dieterich (born March 31, 1876 in Cooperstown , Brown County , Illinois , †  October 12, 1940 in Springfield , Illinois) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Illinois in both chambers of Congress .

William Dieterich was born on a farm and attended country school before continuing his education at Kennedy Normal and Business College in Rushville . There he graduated in 1897; another followed in 1901 at Northern Indiana Law School in Valparaiso , whereupon he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Rushville. During the Spanish-American War he served as a corporal in the US Army .

After his military service, Dieterich served as Rushville's trial lawyer from 1903 to 1907. Between 1906 and 1908 he was the head of the financial administration for the schools in this city. He also served as a district judge in Schuyler County from 1906 to 1910 . He moved to Chicago in 1911 and practiced law in Beardstown in 1912 ; from 1913 to 1917 he was again employed as a public prosecutor with responsibility for inheritance taxes.

William Dieterich was also politically active and sat in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1917 to 1921 . Ten years later, on March 4, 1931, he entered the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the Democrats , where he served a term until March 3, 1933. He did not stand for re-election because he had been nominated as a US Senator by his party . Dieterich also won this election and was a member of the Senate from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1939. He decided not to run again and subsequently worked as a lawyer again. The following year he died while on a business trip in Springfield, the capital of Illinois.

Web links

• William H. Dieterich in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• William H. Dieterich in the database of Find a Grave (English)