Edward Sauerhering

Career

Edward Sauerhering attended the public schools of his home and then the Chicago College of Pharmacy. He then spent three years at the Apothecary shop in Chicago worked, before he returned to Mayville. There he worked in the same industry. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was in the second electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Charles Barwig on March 4, 1895. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1899 two legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

In 1898 Sauerhering opted not to run again. Between 1909 and 1918 he was in Mayville head of the commission that dealt with the public employment measures. He also dealt with the construction of water works. From 1912 to 1920 he was also justice of the peace in his home town. Edward Sauerhering died on March 1, 1924 in Mayville, where he was also buried.

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