James V. Heidinger

James Vandaveer Heidinger (* July 17, 1882 in Mount Erie, Wayne County, Illinois, † March 22, 1945 in Phoenix, Arizona ) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1945 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Heidinger attended the public schools of his home and then the North Illinois Normal School in DeKalb. He then studied at Valparaiso University in Indiana. In the following years he worked as a teacher in Wayne County. After a subsequent law studies at Northern Illinois College of Law in Dixon and his 1908 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Fairfield in this profession. Between 1914 and 1926, officiated Heidinger as a district judge in Wayne County. From 1927 to 1933 he was stellvertrtetender Attorney General of Illinois. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In June 1928 he was a delegate attended the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, was nominated on the Herbert Hoover as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1940, Heidinger was in the 24th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Claude V. Parsons on January 3, 1941. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on March 22, 1945 in the Congress. This period was marked by the events of the Second World War.