George Washington Blanchard

George Washington Blanchard ( born January 26, 1884 in Colby, Marathon County, Wisconsin; † October 2, 1964 in Edgerton, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Blanchard attended the common schools and then studied until 1906 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made in 1910 admitted to the bar he began in Edgerton to work in his new profession. Between 1912 and 1932 he was there -city lawyer.

Politically, Blanchard member of the Republican Party. Between 1925 and 1927 he sat as an MP in the Wisconsin State Assembly; 1927 to 1933 he was a member of the State Senate. In the congressional elections of 1932 he was the first electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Thomas Amlie Ryum took on 4 March 1933 that he had beaten in the primaries. Since he resigned in 1934 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. This was shortened after a constitutional amendment by two months because of the onset of the legislatures had been brought forward from March 4 to January 3. In the 1934 elections was its predecessor Amlie, who ran now for the Wisconsin Progressive Party, also elected as his successor. While Blanchard's time in the U.S. House of Representatives were there passed the first New Deal legislation of the Federal Government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which Blanchard's party but rather opposed to standing.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, George Blanchard retired from politics. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again in Edgerton. He is also passed on 2 October 1964.

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