Isaac Hoffer Doutrich

Isaac Hoffer Doutrich ( born December 19, 1871 Middletown, Pennsylvania, † May 28 1941 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1927 and 1937 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1880 Isaac Doutrich moved with his parents to Elizabethtown. He attended the public schools of his respective home as well as the Keystone State Normal School, today's Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in Kutztown. He then worked in Middletown and Harrisburg in the clothes trade. In addition, he was still working in the banking industry and in various other industries. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1924 and 1927 he sat in the council of Harrisburg.

In the congressional elections of 1926 Doutrich was in the 19th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joshua William Swartz on March 4, 1927. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1937 five legislative sessions. In 1936, he was not confirmed. In his time as a congressman in the early 1930s was the Great Depression. Since 1933, the first New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted, which Doutrichs party faced a rather negative. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Isaac Doutrich worked in Harrisburg back in the clothes trade. There he is on 28 May 1941, died.