John M. Nelson

John Mandt Nelson ( born October 10, 1870 in Burke, Dane County, Wisconsin, † January 29, 1955 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1906 and 1933 he represented two times the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Nelson attended the common schools and then studied until 1892 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Between 1892 and 1894 he was head of the school board in Dane County; 1894-1897 he worked as an accountant in the office of the Secretary of State of Wisconsin. In the years 1897 and 1898 he published the newspaper published in Madidon "The State ". After that, he was from 1898 to 1902 Rapporteur in his State Treasury. In 1896, Nelson completed a law degree at the University of Madison.

Politically, Nelson member of the Republican Party. After the death of Congressman Henry Cullen Adams he was in the overdue election for the second seat of Wisconsin as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on September 4, 1906. After six re- elections he could initially remain until March 3, 1919 at the Congress. Since 1913 he represented there as a successor to Arthur W. Kopp the third district of his state. In this time of the First World War and the adoption of the 16th, 17th and 18th constitutional amendment fell. For the elections of 1918, Nelson was not nominated by his party for re-election. On March 4, 1919 James G. Monahan succeeded him in Congress.

In the congressional elections of 1920, John Nelson was able to regain his seat in the third district of Monahan. After five elections he spent between 4 March 1921 and the March 3, 1933 six other legislatures in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1923 to 1925 he was chairman of an election committee ( Committee on Elections No. 2. ); 1929-1931 he headed the committee that dealt with disability pensions. Shortly before the end of Nelson's last term of office of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in Congress. In 1932, he was not nominated for a second term.

After his final retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives withdrew John Nelson from public life in retirement back. He died on January 29, 1955 in Madison, and was also buried there.

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