John W. Boehne

John William Boehne ( born October 28, 1856 in Scott, Vanderburgh County, Indiana; † 27 December 1946 in Evansville, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1913 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Boehne was the father of the eponymous Congressman John Boehne, Jr. ( 1895-1973 ). He attended the common schools, the German Parochial School of the Lutheran Church and the Evansville Business College. Since 1872 he was a resident of Evansville, where he worked as an accountant. He later ovens and stoves ago. He also still involved in several other sectors. Politically, Boehne member of the Democratic Party. In 1897 and 1899 he was elected to the city council of Evansville. In 1901, he ran unsuccessfully still there for the post of mayor. In 1905 he was elected to this office, which he was able to exercise until 1908. This year, he was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, was nominated on the William Jennings Bryan for the third time as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1908 Boehne was the first electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John H. Foster on March 4, 1909. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 two legislative sessions. In 1912 he abandoned a bid again. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Boehne was director of the branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ( Missouri). Then he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Evansville. There he died on 27 December 1946 at the age of 90 years.