J. William Ditter

John William Ditter ( born September 5, 1888 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † November 21, 1943 in Columbia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Ditter attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree at Temple University in Philadelphia, he was in 1913 admitted to the Bar. Between 1912 and 1925 Ditter taught at high schools in Philadelphia, the subjects of history and commerce. In 1925 he moved to Ambler, where he practiced law. In 1929, he was an arbitrator in labor issues in the eastern part of his country. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1932 Ditter was in the 17th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frederick William Magrady on March 4, 1933. After five elections he could remain until his death on 21 November 1943 at the Congress. There he was at times a member of the Appropriations Committee. During his time in Congress, the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there were adopted, which Ditters party faced a rather negative. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.