Charles E. Dietrich

Charles Elmer Dietrich ( born July 30, 1889 in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, † May 20, 1942 ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Dietrich attended the public schools of his home, including the local high schools. In 1907 he graduated from Wyoming Seminary in Kingston. Since 1914 until his death he operated a movie theater. He also worked in agriculture. Between 1920 and 1935 he was bailiff in Wyoming County. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1932 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in part, was nominated on the Franklin D. Roosevelt as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Dietrich was in the 15th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Louis Thomas McFadden on 3 January 1935. Since he has not been confirmed in 1936, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1937. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends or begins on January 3. While Dietrich's time more New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted there in Congress.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Charles Dietrich took his previous activities on again. He died on 20 May 1942 in his birthplace Tunkhannock, where he was also buried.