Edward Voigt

Edward Voigt ( born December 1, 1873 in Bremen, † August 26, 1934 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin ) was a German American politician. Between 1917 and 1927 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1883 the family of Edward Voigt of Germany emigrated to the United States where they settled in Milwaukee (Wisconsin ). There he attended the public schools. In the following years he worked as a clerk in various insurance and law offices. After studying law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his admission to the bar he began in Sheboygan to work in his new profession. Between 1905 and 1911 he served as District Attorney in the Sheboygan County; 1913 to 1917 he was attorney for the city Sheboygan.

Politically Voigt was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1916, he was in the second electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1917, the successor of Michael E. Burke. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1927 five legislative sessions. In this time of the First World War fell. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in Congress were adopted. 1924 Voigt was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated to the U.S. President Calvin Coolidge for a further term.

In 1926, Voigt gave up another run for the U.S. House of Representatives. After that, he worked again as a lawyer. Since 1929 he was a judge in the fourth judicial district of Wisconsin. This office he held until his death on August 26, 1934 during a summer stay in Crystal Lake near Sheboygan. He was buried in Milwaukee.