Irving Price Wanger

Irving Price Wanger ( born March 5, 1852 in North Coventry, Chester County, Pennsylvania; † 14 January 1940 in Norristown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1911 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Irving Wanger attended the common schools and the Hill School in Pottstown. He then worked as Prothonotary for the district administrations in Chester and Montgomery County. After a subsequent law degree in 1875 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Norristown to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1878 he became mayor of Norristown; in June 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated at the James A. Garfield as a presidential candidate. 1880 and 1886, Wanger was elected District Attorney in Montgomery County and in 1889 he was chairman of the Republican Party there. A year later, he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the congressional elections of 1892 Wanger was then in the eighth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats William Mutchler on March 4, 1893. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 nine legislative sessions. In this time fell among others, the Spanish-American War of 1898. Since 1897 Wanger was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Post Ministry. In 1910 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Irving Wanger lived in Wilmington ( Delaware). From 1920 he continued his legal practice in Pennsylvania continued in the cities of Norristown and Media. He died on January 14, 1940 in Norristown.