Edwin M. Schaefer

Edwin Martin Schaefer ( born May 14, 1887 in Belleville, Illinois, † November 8, 1950 in St. Louis, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Schaefer attended the public schools of his home and then the Western Military Academy in Alton. He then studied at the University of Illinois in Urbana and then to 1910 at Washington University in St. Louis. Later he worked as a chemist at the company Morris & Co., where he rose to 1928 up to CEO ( General Superintendent ) on. He has held since 1919 this position. Between 1928 and 1930, Schaefer was director of Notaries ( Recorder of Deeds ) in St. Clair County. Subsequently, he worked as treasurer until 1932. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1928, 1932 and 1936, he participated in the regional party days of the Democrats in Illinois as a delegate.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Schaefer was the 22nd electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the late Charles A. Karch meantime, on 4 March 1933. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 five legislative sessions. During this time, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt until 1941. In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In 1942, Edwin Schaefer gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was a board member of Griesediech - Western Brewery Co. in Belleville. He died on November 8, 1950 in St. Louis, and was buried in Belleville.