A. C. Schiffler

Andrew Charles Schiffler ( born August 10, 1889 in Wheeling, West Virginia; † March 27, 1970 ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1941, and again from 1943 to 1945, he represented the first electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

C. A. Schiffler attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1913 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Wheeling. Between 1918 and 1922 he worked in the northern district of the state of West Virginia as a bankruptcy trustee; 1925 to 1932 he was district attorney in Ohio County.

Schiffler was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1936 and 1938 he was chairman of the party in Ohio County. In 1938 he was elected in the first district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on January 3, 1939, the successor to the Democrats Robert L. Ramsay, whom he had defeated in the election. But since he was defeated in 1940 at the next election Ramsay, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until January 3, 1941. In the 1942 elections, there was again a duel with Ramsay. This Schiffler was able to regain his lost mandate two years earlier and spend another term in Congress between January 1943 and January 3, 1945 3. This was overshadowed by the events of the Second World War. In the 1944 elections Schiffler lost to Matthew M. Neely.

After the end of his time in Congress Schiffler worked until his death in 1970 as an attorney in Wheeling.