Lewis D. Thill

Lewis Dominic Thill ( born October 18, 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, † May 6, 1975 in San Diego, California ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1943 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lewis Thill attended the common schools and then studied until 1926 at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Subsequently, he attended the Harvard Graduate School and the Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois ). After studying law at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and its made ​​in 1932 admitted to the bar he began in Milwaukee to work his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1938 he was in the fifth electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Thomas O'Malley on January 3, 1939. After a re-election in 1940 he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 two legislative sessions. There more New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted initially. Since December 1941, the work of the Congress of the events of World War II was determined.

1942 and 1944, Thill applied unsuccessfully to his whereabouts or his return to the U.S. House of Representatives. In the years after his retirement from Congress, he worked in the investment industry and the real estate market in San Diego. There he is also deceased on May 6, 1975.