Patrick H. Kelley

Patrick Henry Kelley ( * October 7, 1867 in Dowagiac, Cass County, Michigan, † September 11, 1925 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1923 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives; previously he served as its vice governor.

Career

In 1875, Patrick Kelley moved with his parents to Watervliet in Berrien County, where he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1887 at the Northern Indiana Normal School, Valparaiso. He then worked for several years as a teacher himself, before he continued his own education at Michigan Normal College in Ypsilanti. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began in Lansing to work in his new profession.

Politically, Kelley member of the Republican Party. Between 1901 and 1905 he was a member of the Board of Education of the State of Michigan. From 1905 to 1907 he served as education minister of his home state (State Superintendent of Public Instruction ). Between 1907 and 1911 he served as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan Deputy Governor Fred M. Warner. In the congressional elections of 1912 Kelley has been selected in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Samuel William Smith on March 4, 1913. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1923 five legislative sessions. In this time were, among others, the First World War and the adoption of the 18th and 19th Amendment.

In 1922, Patrick Kelley gave up another run for the House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for the nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. After retiring from Congress, he again worked as a lawyer in Lansing. Patrick Kelley died on September 11, 1925 during a visit to the German capital Washington. He was buried in Lansing.