Howard M. Snapp

Howard Malcolm Snapp ( born September 27, 1855 in Joliet, Illinois; † August 14, 1938 ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1911 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Howard Snapp was the son of Congressman Henry Snapp ( 1822-1895 ). He attended Eastern Avenue School and then studied 1872-1875 at the Forest University in Chicago. After a subsequent law degree in 1878 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession in Globe in the later state of Arizona. Soon after, he returned to Joliet, where he also practiced law. Between 1884 and 1903 he held the position of Master in Chancery in Will County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1893 he was chairman of the district in Will County. In 1896 and 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant, on which William McKinley and William Howard Taft was nominated as the presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1902 Snapp in the eleventh electoral district of Illinois was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Walter Reeves on March 4, 1903. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 four legislative sessions. In 1910, Howard Snapp renounced a new Congress candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer in Joliet, where he died on 14 August 1938.