E. Hart Fenn

Edward Hart Fenn ( born September 12, 1856 in Hartford, Connecticut, † February 23, 1939 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1931 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

E. Hart Fenn enjoyed a private school education and then attended the Hartford High School and Yale University. He then began a career in journalism. He became editor of two daily newspapers in Hartford and wrote, among other editorial to special events. Between 1878 and 1908 he also talked about the meetings of the House of Representatives from Connecticut.

Fenn was a member of the Republican Party. In 1907 and 1915 he was even a member of parliament of his country. He also sat in 1909 and 1911 in the Senate of Connecticut. Between 1912 and 1916 Fenn was hunting and fishing agent of the government of his native country; He also served five years active in the National Guard.

In the congressional elections of 1920, Fenn was elected in the first district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Augustine Lonergan on March 4, 1921. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1931 five legislative sessions. From 1925 to 1931 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the censuses. His tenure also the beginning of the Great Depression fell.

In 1930, Fenn gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Washington and in Wethersfield. E. Hart Fenn died in February 1939 in the German capital Washington and was buried in Hartford.