William E. Humphrey

William Ewart Humphrey (* March 31, 1862 in Alamo, Montgomery County, Indiana, † February 14, 1934 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1917 he represented the State of Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Humphrey attended the public schools of his home. After studying law and its made ​​in 1887 admitted to the bar he began in Crawfordsville to work in his new profession. In 1893, Humphrey moved to Seattle in Washington State, where he continued his profession. Between 1898 and 1902 he was legal adviser to the city.

Politically, Humphrey joined the Republican Party. In the state- wide held congressional elections of 1902, he was for the newly-created third parliamentary seat of Washington State in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1903 at its new mandate, which he initially could perceive until March 3, 1909, after two re- elections. In the elections of 1908, which were held by electoral districts, Humphrey was elected in the first district of his state as a successor of Wesley Livsey Jones again in the U.S. House of Representatives. After three re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1917 at the Congress. Overall, he graduated from there between 1903 and 1917 seven contiguous legislatures. During this time, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted.

1916 Humphrey abandoned in favor of a then unsuccessful candidacy for the U.S. Senate on a possible re-election to the House of Representatives. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer in Seattle. In February 1925 he was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge to the Federal Trade Commission. There he remained until his release by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in September 1933 Humphrey moved against this measure in court and received in 1935, right -. However, posthumously, for he had died on February 14, 1934 in the German capital Washington. He was buried in Crawfordsville.