Joseph D. Beck

Joseph David Beck ( born March 14, 1866 Bloomingdale, Vernon County, Wisconsin, † November 8, 1936 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1929 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Beck attended the common schools and taught afterwards for twelve years at various schools in Wisconsin. Until 1897 he continued his own education at the State Normal School in Stevens Point. He finished his studies in 1903 after studying at the University of Wisconsin. Since 1901 he was employed by the statistical office of the State of Wisconsin. Between 1903 and 1913 he headed the department which was responsible for Arbeitsstatisiken. Between 1911 and 1913 he was Chairman of the International Association of Labour Statisticians (International Association of Labor's Bureau Officials ). From 1913-1917 Beck served as chairman of the state-owned Industrial Commission of Wisconsin. He also dealt with agricultural matters, and was from 1917 in Vernon County itself engaged in animal husbandry.

Politically, Beck member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1920 he was in the seventh constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John J. Esch on March 4, 1921. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1929 four legislative sessions.

1928 renounced Joseph Beck on another candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he aimed at his party's nomination as a candidate for the gubernatorial elections, but by a narrow margin went to Walter J. Kohler. In the following years he continued his activities in agriculture. In 1931 he was appointed at the Ministry of Agriculture of the State of Wisconsin. A post he held until his death on November 8, 1936.