Gerald J. Boileau

Gerald John Boileau ( born January 15, 1900 in Woodruff, Oneida County, Wisconsin, † January 30, 1981 in Wausau, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1939 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1909, Gerald Boileau came to Minocqua, where he attended the public schools. During the First World War, he served as a soldier in an artillery unit in the U.S. Army. He was in use in Europe. After a subsequent law degree at Marquette University in Milwaukee and its made ​​in 1923 admitted to the bar he began in Wausau to work in his new profession. From 1926 to 1931 he was district attorney in the local Marathon County.

Politically Boileau was first a member of the Republican Party. In 1928 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, on the Herbert Hoover was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. In the congressional elections of 1930 he was in the eighth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward E. Browne on March 4, 1931. In 1932 he was re-elected in the seventh district as a Republican candidate. On 4 March 1933 he took over from Gardner R. Withrow, who had represented this district in Congress until then. During this legislative period Boileau joined the Wisconsin Progressive Party. As the candidate he was confirmed in 1934 and 1936 respectively. Overall, he completed 1931-1939 four legislative sessions in Congress. In 1933, were put in place there the 20th and the 21st Amendment. Since 1933, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were discussed and approved in the House of Representatives.

1938 and 1940, Boileau applied unsuccessfully to his whereabouts or his return to the Congress. In the meantime, he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1942 he became a judge in the 16th Judicial District of Wisconsin. This office he held until 1970. Afterwards it was until 1974 still District Judge in Milwaukee County. Then Gerald Boileau withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Wausau, where he died on 30 January 1981.

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