David G. Classon

David Guy Classon ( born September 27, 1870 in Oconto, Oconto County, Wisconsin, † September 6, 1930 ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1923 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Classon attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and its made ​​in 1891 admitted to the bar he began in Oconto to work in his new profession. Between 1894 and 1898 he was district judge in Oconto County. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In 1898 to 1900 he was mayor of his hometown. Between 1900 and 1906 he served as a lawyer of this city; 1912 to 1913 he was president of the Education Committee. Between 1915 and 1916 Classon was also president of the firefighters and police officer.

In the congressional elections of 1916 Classon was in the ninth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Thomas F. Konop on March 4, 1917. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 three legislative periods. In this time of the First World War fell. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were passed in Congress. It was about the 1933 repealed the prohibition of trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

1922 renounced David Classon on another candidacy. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. Since 1928 he was a judge in the Twelfth Judicial District of Wisconsin. He died on September 6, 1930 in his home town of Oconto.

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