Jessie Sumner

Jessie Sumner ( born July 17, 1898 in Milford, Iroquois County, Illinois, † 10 August 1994 in Watseka, Illinois) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1947, she represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jessie Sumner attended the public schools of their home and then to 1916 the Girton School in Winnetka and to 1920 Smith College in Northampton (Massachusetts ). After a subsequent law studies at various universities and their 1923 was admitted as a lawyer in Chicago, she began to work in this profession. In 1928, she was employed by the Chase National Bank in New York City. In 1932 she returned to Milford, where she practiced as a lawyer. In 1937 she became district judge in Iroquois County. Then she received a director's post at the Sumner National Bank of Sheldon. Since 1938, she was Vice President of the Bank. Politically, she became a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1938, Sumner was in the 18th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they succeeded the Democrat James A. Meeks on January 3, 1939. After three elections she was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1947 four legislative sessions. By 1941, there the last of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which Sumners party faced a rather negative. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked.

1946 renounced Jessie Sumner to a new Congress candidacy. After the end of their time in the U.S. House of Representatives until 1966 she was Vice-President of Sumner National Bank. From 1966 to 1994, then served as President of this bank. She died on August 10, 1994 in Watseka.