Ira G. Hersey

Ira Greenlief Hersey ( born March 31, 1858 in Hodgdon, Aroostook County, Maine; † May 6, 1943 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1929 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ira Hersey attended the public schools of his home and then the Ricker Classical Institute in Houlton. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1880 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Houlton. Politically Hersey was a member of the Republican Party. In 1886, he ran unsuccessfully for the post of governor of Maine. Between 1909 and 1912 Hersey was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Maine; 1913 to 1916 he was a member of the State Senate, he served as Chairman since 1915.

1916 Hersey was selected in the fourth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Frank E. Guernsey on 4 March 1917. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in 1929 six contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. From 1919 to 1921 he was chairman of the Committee on public property. In 1926 he was one of the officials appointed by Congress during the impeachment of the Federal Judge George W. English from Illinois. In Hersey's time in Congress, the First World War fell. In addition, the 18th and the 19th Verfasuungszusatz were discussed and adopted.

In the elections of 1928, Ira Hersey has not been nominated by his party for Congress. Between 1934 and 1942 he was a judge in probate court in Aroostook County. Then he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in the capital Washington. There is also Ira Hersey died on 6 May 1943. He was buried in Houlton.