William Alvin Pittenger

William Alvin Pittenger (* December 29, 1885 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, † November 26, 1951 in Duluth, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1947 he represented three times the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Pittenger attended the common schools and Wabash College, he graduated in 1909. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his made ​​in 1912 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Duluth. There he hit as a member of the Republican Party also a political career. Between 1917 and 1920 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Minnesota.

In the congressional elections of 1928 he was in the eighth constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1929, the successor of William Leighton Carss. After a re-election in 1930 he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1933, first, that were overshadowed for the most part of the world economic crisis. In 1933 the 20th Amendment was nearing the end of his term, adopted, brought forward the start of the terms of office of the Congress and the President.

In the 1932 elections Pittenger lost to Ernest Lundeen of the Farmer-Labor Party. In the following two years he again worked as a lawyer in Duluth. At the same time he worked on his return to the Congress. After he won the election of 1934, he could take between January 1935 and January 3, 1937 3 his old place in the House of Representatives. In these two years there, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted, which Pitt Engers Republican Party faced a rather negative. In the 1936 elections Pittenger lost to John Bernard of the Farmer-Labor Party.

In 1938, William Pittenger made ​​the re- entry into the Congress. There he took over on January 3, 1939 to his old place of Bernard. After three re- elections he could remain in 1947 four other legislatures in Congress until January 3. In this time of the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War fell. In 1946, Pittenger was defeated in the congressional elections John Blatnik of the Democratic - Farmer-Labor Party. Overall Pittenger graduated 1929-1947 six legislative sessions in Congress.

After his final retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives William Pittenger again worked as a lawyer in Duluth. There he died on 26 November 1951.