Arsène Pujo

Arsène Paulin Pujo (* December 16, 1861 at Lake Charles, Louisiana, † December 31, 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American politicians. Between 1903 and 1913 he represented the state of Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Arsène Pujo attended both public and private schools. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1886 admitted to the bar he began in Lake Charles to work in his new profession. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1898 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Louisiana.

In the congressional elections of 1902, he was seventh in the newly created constituency of Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1903. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1913 five legislative sessions. Between 1911 and 1913 he was chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee. Since 1908 he was a member of the National Monetary Commission, which analyzed foreign banking systems. so as to explore ways to improve the American system. One result of the Commission's work was the 1913 Federal Reserve Act passed.

1912 renounced Pujo on another candidacy. In the following years, he retired from politics and resumed the lawyer. He died on 31 December 1939 in New Orleans.