Edouard Izac

Edouard Victor Michel Izac ( born December 18, 1891 in Cresco, Howard County, Iowa, † January 18, 1990 in Fairfax, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1947 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a few schools in Iowa and Minnesota Edouard Izac graduated in 1915, the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis (Maryland). Thereafter he served until 1921 in the U.S. Navy. During the First World War, his ship that sunk President Lincoln was. He was received by the German submarine U 90 and later transferred to a POW camp. From there he managed to escape. After his return to the American units he could pass on his observations on board the German boat, thus giving the U.S. Navy important information. For this he was awarded, among others, with the Medal of Honor and the Italian Croce di Guerra. Due to the injury suffered in captivity injuries he had to acknowledge the active military service in 1921. He moved to San Diego in California, where he worked 1922-1928 in the newspaper business. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party a political career. In 1934, he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1940 and 1944 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant, on which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for the respective re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1936 Izac was in the 20th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Burnham on January 3, 1937. After four elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1947 five legislative sessions. Since 1943 he represented there, the then newly established 23 district of his state. By 1941, another New Deal legislation was passed in Congress. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. In 1945 Izac visited the now liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.

In 1946 he was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked in the timber industry. In addition, he was asked, at his now acquired farm in Gordonsville, Virginia with cattle breeding. Edouard Izac spent his life in Bethesda (Maryland). Since 1988 he has lived in Fairfax, where he died on 18 January 1990 at the age of 98 years. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.