Christian William Ramseyer

Christian William Ramseyer (* March 13, 1875 in Collinsville, Butler County, Ohio; † November 1, 1943 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1933 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1887, William Ramseyer came in Davis County, Iowa, where he settled near Pulaski. There he attended the public schools, including the Southern Iowa Normal School, from which he graduated in 1897. Thereafter he attended until 1902, the Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls. The following nine years Ramseyer worked as a teacher. He rose to the head of the Bloomfield High School. After a simultaneous study of law at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and its made ​​in 1906 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Bloomfield. Between 1911 and 1915 he was district attorney in Davis County.

Politically, Ramseyer member of the Republican Party. In 1914 he was selected in the sixth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1915, the successor of Sanford Kirkpatrick of the Democratic Party. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 for nine consecutive terms of office. In this time were the First World War and in 1929 the global economic crisis. During this time, were also discussed and adopted the 18th, the 19th and the 20th Amendment. It was about the ban on alcohol, the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage and the new determinations of the periods between the congressional and presidential elections and the beginning of the respective terms of office. For the elections of 1932, Ramseyer was not nominated by his party.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives William Ramseyer was employed by the United States Court of Claims in Washington. There he remained until his death in 1943. He was buried in Bloomfield.