A. F. Maciejewski

Anton Frank " A. F. " Maciejewski ( born January 3, 1893 in Anderson, Texas, † September 25, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1942 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

AF Maciejewski attended the public schools in Cicero (Illinois ) and the Lewis Institute in Chicago. Since 1916 he worked in Cicero in the coal trade. Between 1925 and 1928 he was the assisting authority (lot of relief) in Cook County operates. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. He was both a member of the State Board of his party as well as the Democratic National Committee. In June 1928 he took part in Houston as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Between 1932 and 1939 he was mayor and treasurer of Cicero.

In the congressional elections of 1938, Maciejewski was the sixth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas J. O'Brien on January 3, 1939. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on December 8, 1942 at the Congress. By 1941, there the last of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked. In 1942 he abandoned a bid again and stepped back a few weeks before the official end of the legislative period (3 January 1943).

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Maciejewski again worked in the coal business. He was also a board member of the board of trustees of the sanitary district of Chicago. He died on 25 September 1949 in Chicago.

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