Alexander Wiley

Alexander Wiley ( born May 26, 1884 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, † May 26 1967 in German Town, Pennsylvania) was an American politician who represented the state of Wisconsin 1939-1963 in the U.S. Senate.

Biography

Early life

Alexander Wiley grew up in Minnesota, where he attended Augsburg College in Minneapolis. Then Wiley graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he in 1907 obtained his law degree.

Political career

Wiley began in Chippewa Falls to practice as a lawyer and was appointed in 1909 to the district attorney of Chippewa County, a position he held until 1915. Then he went back to his law firm, where he specializes in agricultural law and banking again for over 20 years. 1936 Wiley ran unsuccessfully for the post of governor of Wisconsin. With 29.4 percent of the vote he took second place behind the victorious incumbent Philip La Follette from the Progressive Party.

Two years later, in 1938, he turned the election for the office of U.S. Senator. With success, he moved - the party was a member of the Republican - one in the United States Senate on January 3, 1939 and was elected three times in a row again. During his tenure, Wiley conducted some bodies, including 1947-1948 to the Senate Judiciary Committee. 1953 Wiley took the leadership of the Foreign Affairs Committee and remained in that position until 1954.

Wiley was voted as a senator in 1962 and left the Senate on January 3, 1963, after 24 years in office.

Last years and death

He settled in Washington D.C., where he lived the last four years of his life. A stay in a sanatorium in German Town was the reason why Wiley had to leave mid-May 1967, the federal capital. In German Town he died on his 83rd birthday. His remains were transferred to Chippewa Falls, where Alexander Wiley found his final resting place.

About his private life nothing is known.

Others

In the course of his life, Wiley was a member of numerous compounds, including the Freemasons, and the charity of the Kiwanis.