Edwin F. Sweet

Edwin Forrest Sweet ( born November 21, 1847 in Dansville, Livingston County, New York, † April 2, 1935 in Ojai, California ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Sweet attended the common schools and then studied until 1871 at Yale College the literature. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1874 admitted to the bar he began in Grand Rapids ( Michigan) to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

Between 1899 and 1906 sat Sweet Member of the Board of Education of Grand Rapids. From 1904 to 1906 he was mayor of that city. In the congressional elections of 1910, Sweet was the fifth electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Gerrit J. Diekema on March 4, 1911. Since he Republican Carl E. Mapes defeated in the elections of 1912, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1913.

During the presidency of Woodrow Wilson Sweet was 1913-1921 Vice Minister of Commerce. In 1916, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Michigan: With a vote share of 40.6 percent, he clearly lost to Republican Albert Sleeper. Between 1923 and 1926 he was again a member of the Education Committee of Grand Rapids; 1926 to 1928 he served on the city council. He also operated a grain farm and a cattle ranch in North Dakota. He remained in Grand Rapids resident, until he retired in 1928 to retire, which he spent in Ojai ( California). He is also passed on April 2, 1935. He was then buried in Grand Rapids.