William Wedemeyer

William Wedemeyer

William Walter Wedemeyer (born March 22, 1873 in Lima , Washtenaw County , Michigan , †  January 2, 1913 in Colón , Panama ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Wedemeyer attended public schools in his home country including Ann Arbor High School . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission to the bar in 1895, he began to work in his new profession from 1899 in Ann Arbor. Between 1894 and 1895 Wedemeyer was a member of the Board of School Examiners . From 1895 to 1897 he served as the County Commissioner of Schools and from 1897 to 1899 as deputy railroad commissioner for the state of Michigan. Politically Wedemeyer was a member of the Republican Party . In 1903 he was chairman of their regional convention in Michigan. In the summer of 1905 he was the American consul in Georgetown ( British Guiana ).

Between 1906 and 1910 Wedemeyer was a member of his party's executive committee at the state level. In the 1910 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Charles E. Townsend on March 4, 1911 . Since he in the elections of 1912 the Democrats Samuel Beakes lost, he would have until 3 March 1913 only one term in Congress can be completed. Wedemeyer did not live to see the official end of his term of office. At the turn of the year 1912/1913 he was a member of a congress delegation touring Latin America . Apparently he had been suffering from depression since his election defeat in November 1912. When his ship entered the port of Colón on January 2, 1913, he jumped overboard and drowned in the waves. His remains were never found.

Web links

• William Wedemeyer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Wedemeyer in the database of Find a Grave (English)