Edward C. Eicher

Edward Clayton Eicher (* December 16, 1878 in Noble, Washington County, Iowa, † November 29, 1944 in Alexandria, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1938 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Eicher attended the public schools of his home, including the Washington Academy. After he graduated from the Morgan Park Academy in Illinois and then in 1904 the University of Chicago. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1906 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new job in Washington ( Iowa). Between 1907 and 1909 he was employed as an Assistant Registrar in the administration of the University of Chicago. In 1909 he moved to Burlington, where he worked as a lawyer for a railroad company until 1918. In 1918 he returned to Washington, where he worked again as a private lawyer.

Politically, Eicher member of the Democratic Party. In 1932 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was first nominated to the Franklin D. Roosevelt as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of that year he was in the first electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1933, the successor to William F. Kopp. After he was confirmed in each case in the next two elections, he could remain until his resignation on 2 December 1938 at the Congress. At this time there most New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were discussed and adopted.

Eicher's resignation took place after his appointment to the Securities and Exchange Commission ( Securities and Exchange Commission ) by President Roosevelt. Until 1942 he remained a member of the commission, which he was president at the time of his retirement. In February 1942, Edward Eicher was appointed Chief Justice of the District of Columbia. This office he held until his death in 1944.