Irvine Lenroot

Irvine Luther Lenroot ( born January 31, 1869 in Superior, Wisconsin, † January 26, 1949 in Washington, DC) was an American politician who represented the state of Wisconsin in both houses of Congress.

Life

Irvine L. Lenroot was born the fourth of six children of Lars and Fredrika Regina Lenroot in Superior ( Wisconsin). His parents, who came in the 1850s from Sweden to the United States had changed its name from Linderoth in Lenroot.

After leaving school, he earned in 1884, Lenroot worked with his older brother in the harvesting, before in 1887 he own small business in Duluth (Minnesota) founded. In the 1890s he worked as a stenographer for a law firm, and from 1893 to 1906 as a court reporter at the Court in Douglas County. As early as 1898 he was admitted to the Bar of the State of Wisconsin. After three years, where he had worked as a lawyer in his hometown of Superior, ran Lenroot 1901 with success for the Republican Party for a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly. He was a member until 1907, and served from 1903 until his resignation as Speaker of Parliament.

In 1908, Lenroot also applied successfully for a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States, where he worked until April 1918 from March 1909. After the death of U.S. Senator Paul O. Husting, in October 1917, was a candidate for the now vacant Lenroot seat in the Senate of the United States. As a candidate for the office of Vice President of the United States - - In the presidential elections in 1920 Lenroot of U.S. Senator Warren G. Harding as his running mate was considered, but the delegates to the national Republican convention, which met in Chicago (Illinois ) decided otherwise and nominated the politically more experienced and better known as Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge for President. Since Harding died in August 1923 Lenroot would possibly become the 30th President of the United States. 1920 Lenroot was re-elected with 41.6 percentage points votes as a senator. In 1924 he presented a short time considerations to to stand even for the office of U.S. President, pursued this project, however, hardly. 1926 Lenroot was not re- erected by his party's Senate candidate, since this Governor John J. Blaine nominated.

Three years after his retirement from the Senate in 1929, U.S. President Herbert Hoover appointed him as Chief Justice of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the Federal Court for consumer protection and patent law. This he faced up to his retirement in 1944.

Lenroot was married twice. On October 22, 1890, he appeared with Clara Pamelia McClough down the aisle, from the marriage were born two daughters. After the death of his wife on April 4, 1942, he entered on February 4, 1943 Eleonore von Eltz in the state of marriage, with which he was, until his death, six years later, married.

Only five days before his 80th birthday died Lenroot in Washington, DC of cancer.

Superior (Wisconsin) Douglas County (Wisconsin) Republican National Convention Wisconsin Territory George W. Jones James Duane Doty Henry Dodge Morgan Lewis Martin John Hubbard Tweedy Henry Hastings Sibley William Pitt Lynde Charles Durkee Daniel Wells, Jr. John F. Potter James S. Brown Halbert E. Paine Alexander Mitchell (politician) Charles G. Williams John Winans Lucien B. Caswell Clinton Babbitt Henry Allen Cooper Clifford E. Randall George Washington Blanchard Stephen Bolles Lawrence H. Smith Gerald T. Flynn Henry C. Schadeberg Lynn E. Stalbaum Peter W. Barca Mark Neumann Paul Ryan Mason C. Darling Orsamus Cole Ben C. Eastman Cadwallader C. Washburn Walter D. McIndoe Ithamar Sloan Benjamin F. Hopkins David Atwood Gerry Whiting Hazelton Daniel H. Sumner Edward S. Bragg Richard W. Guenther Charles Barwig Edward Sauerhering Herman Dahle Henry Cullen Adams John M. Nelson Michael E. Burke Edward Voigt Charles A. Kading Charles W. Henney Harry Sauthoff Charles Hawks, Jr. Robert Kirkland Henry Glenn Robert Davis Donald Edgar Tewes Scott L. Klug Tammy Baldwin Mark Pocan John B. Macy Charles Billinghurst Charles H. Larrabee A. Scott Sloan Amasa Cobb J. Allen Barber Henry S. Magoon George Cochrane Hazelton Burr W. Jones Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Allen R. Bushnell Joseph W. Babcock James William Murphy Arthur W. Kopp James G. Monahan Gardner R. Withrow Harry W. Griswold William H. Stevenson Alvin Baldus Ron Kind Charles A. Eldredge Peter V. Deuster Isaac W. Van Schaick Henry Smith (Wisconsin) John L. Mitchell Peter J. Somers William J. Cary John C. Kleczka John C. Schafer Raymond Joseph Cannon Thaddeus Wasielewski John C. Brophy Clement J. Zablocki Jerry Kleczka Gwen Moore Ezra Wheeler Philetus Sawyer Samuel D. Burchard Joseph Rankin George H. Brickner Samuel S. Barney William H. Stafford Lewis D. Thill Howard J. McMurray Andrew Biemiller Charles J. Kersten Henry S. Reuss Jim Moody Alanson M. Kimball Gabriel Bouck Charles B. Clark Lucas M. Miller Owen A. Wells Samuel A. Cook James H. Davidson Charles H. Weisse Michael Reilly Florian Lampert Frank Bateman Keefe William Van Pelt John Abner Race William A. Steiger Tom Petri Herman L. Humphrey Gilbert M. Woodward Ormsby B. Thomas Frank P. Coburn George B. Shaw Michael Griffin (politician) John J. Esch Joseph D. Beck Merlin Hull Gerald J. Boileau Dave Obey Sean Duffy Alexander S. McDill George W. Cate Thaddeus C. Pound William T. Price Hugh H. Price Nils P. Haugen Lyman E. Barnes Edward S. Minor Edward E. Browne James F. Hughes George J. Schneider Joshua L. Johns John W. Byrnes Harold Vernon Froehlich Robert John Cornell Toby Roth Jay W. Johnson Mark Andrew Green Steve Kagen Isaac Stephenson Thomas Lynch (congressman) Alexander Stewart (American politician) Webster E. Brown David G. Classon James A. Frear Lester Johnson (politician) Bob Kasten John J. Jenkins Elmer A. Morse Hubert H. Peavey Bernard J. Gehrmann Adolphus Peter Nelson List of United States Senators from Wisconsin James Rood Doolittle Matthew H. Carpenter Angus Cameron (politician) Joseph V. Quarles Isaac P. Walker John Coit Spooner F. Ryan Duffy Alexander Wiley Ron Johnson (U.S. politician)

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