Frederick Steiwer

Frederick Steiwer (* October 13, 1883 in Jefferson, Marion County, Oregon; † February 3, 1939 in Washington DC ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Oregon in the U.S. Senate.

Early years

Steiwer Frederick was born on a farm near the small town of Jefferson. He attended the public schools and as a result the Oregon State Agricultural College in Corvallis, where in 1902 he received his Bachelor of Science degree. He then enrolled at the University of Oregon in Eugene and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1906; it went on to study law at the Law School of the University of Oregon -based Portland. Upon successful completion, he was admitted to the State Bar Association in 1908 and began working for a law firm in Portland. In March 1909, he announced there and moved to the East Oregon, where he founded his own law firm and a partner in Pendleton.

Steiwers career began in 1909, is also still in the public sector with the appointment of a deputy district attorney in Umatilla County, which he remained until 1910. The following year, he married; from the marriage were born two children. In 1912 he was elected for a four year term as district attorney. Steiwer changed in 1916 in the policy and represented the 20th electoral district of his state in the Senate of Oregon. However, he belonged to the house of Parliament only until 1917, when he resigned his position to join the U.S. Army to join and fight in the First World War. In the rank of First Lieutenant of Artillery in 1919, he retired from the military out.

Political career

Steiwer applied in 1926 to the election for U.S. Senator. In the Republican Primary he challenged incumbent Robert N. Stanfield and defeated them. In the actual election, he then met not only the Democrats Bert E. Haney, but also to Stanfield, who ran as an Independent. With 39.8 % of the vote Steiwer won before Haney ( 36.3 %) and Stanfield (22.5%) and was then able to take his seat in Congress on March 4, 1927.

In advance of the presidential election in 1928 Frederick Steiwer belonged to the large circle of his party candidates for the succession of not more antretenden Calvin Coolidge. Ultimately accounted for at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City no delegates vote for him; was nominated the later victorious in the choice Herbert C. Hoover. When nominating convention before the presidential election in 1936 in Cleveland Steiwer held the opening speech (Keynote Address), acted temporarily as chairman of the event and was named again as a possible presidential candidate. This time, the election of delegates fell to Alf Landon.

Meanwhile Steiwer had been confirmed as a senator. After an operation on his gall bladder in November 1936, he was, however, health severely impaired and could not lead to the end of his second term of office: He laid down his mandate on 31 January 1938. During his time in the Senate he had led, among others, the chair of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments; He also served on the Senate Judiciary Committee. In this role, he was instrumental in helping to prevent the ratification of the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, wanted to limit the powers of his conservative opponent in the Supreme Court by the President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Generally Steiwer was an opponent of Roosevelt and his New Deal policies.

After his retirement from the Senate Steiwer worked as a lawyer in the capital Washington. He died there the following year.

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