Louis Fitzhenry

Louis Fitzhenry ( born June 13, 1870 in Bloomington, Illinois, † November 18, 1935 in Normal, Illinois) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

Louis Fitzhenry attended the public schools in Bloomington and was then engaged in journalism. After a subsequent law degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington and his 1897 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. From 1907 to 1911 he served as city attorney in Bloomington. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1910 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Fitzhenry was but then in the 17th Election District of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Republican John Allen Sterling took on 4 March 1913 that he had beaten in the election. Since he lost in 1914 against Sterling, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. During this time, 1913, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Louis Fitzhenry again practiced as a lawyer in Bloomington. Between 1918 and 1933 he was a successor to the late J. Otis Humphrey judge at the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. On 3 June 1933, he was then nominated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the seventh circuit court. After confirmation by the U.S. Senate, he appeared there on 16 June of the same year, the successor to the previous retire George True Page. He remained in that post until his death on 18 November 1935.