Carl E. Mapes

Carl Edgar Mapes (* December 26, 1874 at Kalamo, Eaton County, Michigan, † December 12, 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1939 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Carl Mapes attended the common schools and the Olivet College, which he completed in 1896. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1899 admitted to the bar he began in Grand Rapids to work in his new profession. Between 1900 and 1904 he was deputy prosecutor in Kent County.

Politically Mapes was a member of the Republican Party. From 1905 to 1907 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan; 1909-1913 he was a member of the State Senate. In the congressional elections of 1912 Mapes was in the fifth electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Edwin F. Sweet on March 4, 1913. After 13 Re-elections he could remain until his death in December 1939 in Congress. This period was, among other things, the First World War. While Mapes ' time in Congress were there passed the 16th, the 17th, the 18th, the 19th, the 20th and the 21st Amendment. Between 1933 and 1939 most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were advised under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and put in place. Mapes ' party was these reforms, but rather critical to hostile. Between 1919 and 1921 Mapes was chairman of the Committee for the administration of the Federal District District of Columbia.

He died on 12 December 1939 in New Orleans and was buried in Grand Rapids. His parliamentary seat fell at a by-election to his party colleagues Bartel J. Jonkman. Carl Mapes was married to Julia Pike (1874-1948), with whom he had four children.