Bernard J. Gehrmann

Bernard John Gehrmann (* February 13, 1880 in Königsberg, East Prussia, † July 12, 1958 in Mellen, Wisconsin ) was an American politician of German origin. Between 1935 and 1943 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gehrmann, Bernard attended the public schools in his East Prussian homeland. In 1893 he emigrated with his parents to the United States, where the family settled in Chicago. There Gehrmann worked in a packaging company. After that he made in a German newspaper a lesson in the printing trade. He also improved his education by attending night school. In 1896 Gehrmann moved to Wisconsin, where he settled on a farm near Neillsville. There he worked in the following years in agriculture. In 1915 he moved to another farm near Mellen. There he began a political career.

Between 1916 and 1934 Gehrmann was a member of the school committee of the city Mellen. From 1916 to 1921 he was employed as Town Assessor of his new hometown. Between 1921 and 1932 he was chairman of the city council. He also headed 1920-1933 some schools for training of farmers on behalf of the University of Wisconsin. Politically Gehrmann was a member of the Republican Party. From 1927 to 1933 he sat as an MP in the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1932 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, on the U.S. President Herbert Hoover was nominated for re-election. In the years 1933 and 1934 Gehrmann was a member of the Senate of Wisconsin. During this time he joined the Wisconsin Progressive Party.

In the congressional elections of 1934 Gehrmann was in the tenth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hubert H. Peavey on 3 January 1935. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1943 four legislative sessions. There initially more New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In the 1942 elections Gehrmann was defeated by Republican Alvin O'Konski, which then represented the tenth district of Wisconsin until its dissolution in 1973 in Congress. Between 1943 and 1945 Gehrmann worked for the Federal Department of Agriculture. Between 1946 and 1952 he was elected four times in the State Assembly. From 1954 to 1957 he was again a member of the State Senate. Gehrmann, Bernard died on 12 July 1958 in Mellen, and was also buried there.

Mellen (Wisconsin) Neillsville, Wisconsin Wisconsin State Senate Wisconsin Territory George W. Jones James Duane Doty Henry Dodge Morgan Lewis Martin John Hubbard Tweedy Henry Hastings Sibley William Pitt Lynde Charles Durkee Daniel Wells, Jr. John F. Potter James S. Brown Halbert E. Paine Alexander Mitchell (politician) Charles G. Williams John Winans Lucien B. Caswell Clinton Babbitt Henry Allen Cooper Clifford E. Randall George Washington Blanchard Stephen Bolles Lawrence H. Smith Gerald T. Flynn Henry C. Schadeberg Lynn E. Stalbaum Peter W. Barca Mark Neumann Paul Ryan Mason C. Darling Orsamus Cole Ben C. Eastman Cadwallader C. Washburn Walter D. McIndoe Ithamar Sloan Benjamin F. Hopkins David Atwood Gerry Whiting Hazelton Daniel H. Sumner Edward S. Bragg Richard W. Guenther Charles Barwig Edward Sauerhering Herman Dahle Henry Cullen Adams John M. Nelson Michael E. Burke Edward Voigt Charles A. Kading Charles W. Henney Harry Sauthoff Charles Hawks, Jr. Robert Kirkland Henry Glenn Robert Davis Donald Edgar Tewes Scott L. Klug Tammy Baldwin Mark Pocan John B. Macy Charles Billinghurst Charles H. Larrabee A. Scott Sloan Amasa Cobb J. Allen Barber Henry S. Magoon George Cochrane Hazelton Burr W. Jones Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Allen R. Bushnell Joseph W. Babcock James William Murphy Arthur W. Kopp James G. Monahan Gardner R. Withrow Harry W. Griswold William H. Stevenson Alvin Baldus Ron Kind Charles A. Eldredge Peter V. Deuster Isaac W. Van Schaick Henry Smith (Wisconsin) John L. Mitchell Peter J. Somers William J. Cary John C. Kleczka John C. Schafer Raymond Joseph Cannon Thaddeus Wasielewski John C. Brophy Clement J. Zablocki Jerry Kleczka Gwen Moore Ezra Wheeler Philetus Sawyer Samuel D. Burchard Joseph Rankin George H. Brickner Samuel S. Barney William H. Stafford Lewis D. Thill Howard J. McMurray Andrew Biemiller Charles J. Kersten Henry S. Reuss Jim Moody Alanson M. Kimball Gabriel Bouck Charles B. Clark Lucas M. Miller Owen A. Wells Samuel A. Cook James H. Davidson Charles H. Weisse Michael Reilly Florian Lampert Frank Bateman Keefe William Van Pelt John Abner Race William A. Steiger Tom Petri Herman L. Humphrey Gilbert M. Woodward Ormsby B. Thomas Frank P. Coburn George B. Shaw Michael Griffin (politician) John J. Esch Joseph D. Beck Merlin Hull Gerald J. Boileau Dave Obey Sean Duffy Alexander S. McDill George W. Cate Thaddeus C. Pound William T. Price Hugh H. Price Nils P. Haugen Lyman E. Barnes Edward S. Minor Edward E. Browne James F. Hughes George J. Schneider Joshua L. Johns John W. Byrnes Harold Vernon Froehlich Robert John Cornell Toby Roth Jay W. Johnson Mark Andrew Green Steve Kagen Isaac Stephenson Thomas Lynch (congressman) Alexander Stewart (American politician) Webster E. Brown David G. Classon James A. Frear Lester Johnson (politician) Bob Kasten John J. Jenkins Elmer A. Morse Irvine Lenroot Adolphus Peter Nelson

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