Florian Lampert

Florian Lampert ( born July 8, 1863 in West Bend, Wisconsin, † July 18, 1930 in Chicago Heights, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1918 and 1930 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Florian Lampert attended the public schools of his home. In 1875 he moved with his widowed mother to Oshkosh, where he first worked in a shoe store. Between 1893 and 1896, Lampert was city treasurer. After that he was in the years 1897 and 1898 as Sheriff Sheriff in Winnebago County. Then he was engaged in trade. From 1914 to 1918 he was a representative ( Commissioner) of the city of Oshkosh.

Politically, Lampert member of the Republican Party. After the death of Congressman James H. Davidson, he was at the due election for the sixth mandate of Wisconsin as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. At the same time, he also won the election for the next term of office. Since he decided the following choices for himself, he could remain until his death on July 18, 1930 in Congress. From 1919 to 1921 Lampert was chairman of an election committee ( Committee on Election of President, Vice President and Representatives ). Between 1921 and 1925 he headed the Patent Committee. Lampert sat in Congress particularly for pension payments to war veterans one. During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives there were adopted in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment.

Florian Lampert died on July 18, 1930 in a car accident in Chicago Heights, while he was on his way home to Oshkosh. He was married in 1885 to Mary 's cousin, with whom he had seven children.