Gilbert N. Haugen

Gilbert Nelson Haugen (* April 21, 1859 in Orfordville, Rock County, Wisconsin, † July 18, 1933 in Northwood, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1933 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gilbert Haugen attended the public schools of his home. In 1873 he moved to Decorah in Winneshiek County, Iowa. There he first worked in agriculture. At the same time he was attending a college Breckenridge. Later, he also graduated from the Commercial College in Janesville (Wisconsin ). In the following years, Haugen involved in many stores, primarily in the real estate sector and in the banking sector. In 1886 he moved to Northwood, where he was also active in banking.

Haugen was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1887 and 1893 he served as treasurer in Worth County. In 1890 he founded the Northwood Banking Co. Its president he became. From 1894 to 1898 was Haugen deputy in the House of Representatives from Iowa. 1898 Haugen in the fourth electoral district of Iowa was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Updegraff on March 4, 1899. After 16 re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 17 legislative periods. From 1907 to 1909 he headed the committee to control expenditure of the Ministry of the Interior; 1919-1931 he was chairman of the Agriculture Committee. He was instrumental in the McNary - Haugen Farm Act adopted in 1927. During his time in Congress, the First World War and the adoption of six constitutional additives that advise 1913-1933 in Congress and adopted fell. It was about the introduction of the federal income tax, the direct election of U.S. senators, the ban on alcohol and later lifting the ban, women's suffrage and the revision of the electoral cycles of the President and the Congress.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Haugen was a victim of the then nationwide trends in favor of the Democratic Party: he defeated Fred Biermann. Gilbert Haugen died a few months after his resignation from Congress on July 18, 1933, Northwood.