Edmund Frederick Erk

Edmund Frederick Erk (* April 17, 1872 in Allegheny, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, † December 14, 1953 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1930 and 1933 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edmund Erk attended the common schools and worked in Pittsburgh in the newspaper industry. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1911 and 1919 he was secretary of Congressman Stephen Geyer Porter; 1919 to 1930 he worked for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. In the years 1924 and 1925 he took part in a conference of the League of Nations in Geneva as an American delegate.

After the death of Mr Porter Erk was at the due election for the 32 seats of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 4 November 1930. After a simultaneous choice for the next legislative period he could remain until March 3, 1933 Congress. This period was marked by the events of the Great Depression.

In 1932 Edmund Erk was not re-elected. Two years later, he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. From 1933 to 1935 he worked as secretary of Congressman Michael Joseph Muldowney. He was also active as an author and translator. From 1939 to 1945, Erk was a member of the staff of U.S. Senator James J. Davis. He spent his last years in Bethesda, where he died on 14 December 1953.