Edwin V. Champion

Edwin Van Meter Champion ( born September 18, 1890 in Mansfield, Piatt County, Illinois, † February 11, 1976 in Peoria, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1939 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Champion attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana and his 1912 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Peoria in this profession. During the First World War he served in the years 1917 to 1919 in the U.S. Army. After officer training at Fort Sheridan, he was employed in the European theater of war and brought it up to the captain. In the years 1919 and 1920 Champion was the deputy district attorney in Peoria County. Between 1932 and 1936 he was a regular prosecutor. In 1935, he served as President of the Association of Prosecutors in Illinois. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1936 champion in the 26th electoral district of Illinois was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Martin A. Brennan on January 3, 1937. Since he resigned in 1938 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1939. During this time other New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Edwin Champion again practiced as a lawyer. He died on February 11, 1976 in his home in Peoria.