Henry Vollmer

Henry Vollmer ( born July 28, 1867 in Davenport, Iowa; † August 25, 1930 in Piedmont, California ) was an American politician. Between 1914 and 1915 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Vollmer attended the public schools of his home. He then traveled to the capital Washington, where he was employed in the years 1887 and 1888 in the Congress government as mailman ( Distribution Clerk ). After studying law at the University of Iowa and Georgetown University and its made ​​in 1889 admitted to the bar he began in Davenport to work in his new profession. Politically, Vollmer member of the Democratic Party. In 1889 he became councilor in Davenport. In this city he was also mayor 1893-1897. In addition, he sat there from 1898 to 1901 in the Education Committee. Vollmer was in the years 1913 and 1914 as a corporate lawyer ( Corporation Counsel ) operates.

After the death of Congressman Irvin S. Pepper Vollmer was elected in the second district of Iowa as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he came into effect on February 10, 1914 at its new mandate. Until March 3, 1915 he ended the legislative session begun by his predecessor. After the end of his time in Congress Vollmer again worked as a lawyer. Politically, he is no more have appeared. He died in August 1930 in Piedmont.