George W. Rauch

George Washington Rauch ( born February 22, 1876 at Huntington County, Indiana, † November 4, 1940 in Marion, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1917 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Rauch attended the common schools and then studied at the Valparaiso Normal School, later the Valparaiso University emerged from the. After a subsequent law studies at the Northern Indiana Law School in Valparaiso and its made ​​in 1902 admitted to the bar he began in Marion to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1906, smoke was in the eleventh electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frederick Landis on March 4, 1907. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 five legislative sessions. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. 1916 defeated Republican Milton smoke Kraus.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He was also a board member of the motor Securities Corporation and Davis Records Co. Company, the latter company he led as president. Between 1930 and 1939 he was a trustee for banks ( Bank receiver) in Swayzee, Sheridan and Marion. From 1927 to 1933 George Smoking also belonged to the school board in his hometown of Marion. He died on 4 November 1940.