John C. Kleczka

John Casimir Kleczka ( born May 6, 1885 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, † April 21, 1959 ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Kleczka attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1905, the Marquette University in Milwaukee. He then studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After studying law and its made ​​in 1909 admitted to the bar he began in Milwaukee to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1909 and 1911 Kleczka sat in the Senate of Wisconsin. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the U.S. president William Howard Taft was nominated for a second term. Between 1914 and 1918 he worked at the District Court in Milwaukee County. After the First World War Kleczka was also a military judge in the reserve of the U.S. Army.

In the congressional elections of 1918, he was elected in the fourth electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William J. Cary on March 4, 1919. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1923 two legislative sessions. At this time there the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. In 1922 Kleczka opted not to run again for Congress. From 1930 to 1953 he worked as a district judge. Since 1957 until his death on 21 April 1959 in Milwaukee, he was arbitrator ( Conciliation Judge ) and Court Commissioner ( Commissioner Court ).

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