Cyrus Maffet Palmer

Cyrus Maffet Palmer ( born February 12, 1887 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, † August 16, 1959 ) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1929 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cyrus Palmer attended the common schools and then studied until 1907 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After a subsequent law degree in 1911 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Pottsville to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1916 and 1920 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1920 to 1927 he was district attorney in Schuylkill County.

In the congressional elections of 1926, Palmer was in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George F. Brumm on March 4, 1927. Since he in the primaries of his party his predecessor hum defeated in 1928, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1929. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Palmer practiced as a lawyer again. Since 1931 he was a judge in the 21st Judicial District of the State of. In 1940 he took over the chairmanship of this court. This office he held until his death on August 16, 1959 in Pottsville.