John Hyde Sweet

John Hyde Sweet ( born September 1, 1880 in Milford, Otsego County, New York, † April 4, 1964 in Wickenburg, Arizona ) was an American politician. Between 1940 and 1941 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1885, John Sweet came to Palmyra in Nebraska. There he attended the public schools, including the Palmyra High School. He then studied at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Business College.

Between 1899 and 1900, Sweet was a court reporter in western Nebraska. From 1902 to 1909 he worked as a grocer in Nebraska City. Then he went into the newspaper business and relocated a newspaper. At that time he was a member of the Progressive Party, whose national party he attended in 1912, on the former President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. Later he joined the Republican Party, from which the Progressive Party had originally emerged.

After the death of Congressman George H. Heinke John Sweet was elected at the election due to his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he completed between April 19, 1940 and January 3, 1941, Unopened legislature. For the regular congressional elections of 1940 Sweet did not run.

After the end of his time in Congress, John Sweet devoted again to his private affairs. Politically, he is no more have appeared. He died in April 1964 in Arizona, and was buried in Nebraska City.