Carl R. Chindblom

Carl Richard Chindblom ( born December 21, 1870 in Chicago, Illinois, † September 12, 1956 ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1933 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Carl Chindblom attended the public schools of his native and Augustana College in Rock Iceland. Between 1893 and 1896 he was a teacher at Martin Luther College in Chicago. After studying law at Kent College of Law, which later became Lake Forest University, and his were made in 1900 admitted to the bar he began to work in Chicago in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1904, 1908, 1912 and 1916, he participated in the regional party days of the Republicans in Illinois as a delegate. He also appeared in the years 1905 and 1906 legal representative of the Health Committee of Illinois. Between 1906 and 1910 Chindblom also sat in the District of Cook County. He was from 1912 to 1914 as a prosecutor working. Thereafter, he practiced 1916-1918 the function of the Master in Chancery at the local district court.

In the congressional elections of 1918 Chindblom was in the tenth constituency of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Edmund Foss on March 4, 1919. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 seven legislative sessions. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or to the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. Since 1929 the work of the Congress was determined by the events of the Great Depression.

In 1932, Carl Chindblom was not nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1934 and 1942 he also served as an arbitrator in bankruptcy proceedings for the northern part of Illinois on behalf of the federal government. He died on 12 September 1956 in his hometown of Chicago.