William I. Traeger

William I. Traeger

William Isham Traeger (born February 26, 1880 in Porterville , California , †  January 20, 1935 in Los Angeles , California) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Traeger attended public schools in his home country. During the Spanish-American War of 1898 he served in a California infantry unit . He then studied until 1901 at Stanford University . From 1902 he was based in Los Angeles. Traeger, he also made a sporting career as a player and coach of some university teams. Between 1903 and 1906 he was also the US Deputy Marshal ; from 1907 to 1911 he served as the deputy sheriff in Los Angeles County . After studying law at the University of Southern California and his admission to the bar in 1909, he began to work in this profession. From 1911 to 1921 he was employed as a deputy clerk with the administration of the Supreme Court of California . He was then between 1921 and 1932 sheriff in Los Angeles County.

Politically, Traeger became a member of the Republican Party . In the 1932 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly established 15th  constituency of California , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. Since he was not confirmed in 1934, he could only complete one term in Congress until January 3, 1935 . During this time, the first New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed, but Traeger's party was rather hostile to them.

William Traeger died of liver failure in Los Angeles on January 20, 1935, just days after leaving Congress.

Web links

• William I. Traeger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)