Lee E. Geyer

Lee Edward Geyer ( born September 9, 1888 in Wetmore, Nemaha County, Kansas, † October 11, 1941 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1941 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lee Geyer attended the public schools of his home. Since 1908 he himself was a teacher at various schools in Nemaha County. During the First World War he served as a soldier in the U.S. Army in a training camp for officers. He then worked 1919-1938 in the states of Kansas, Arizona and California as a teacher. In the meantime, he continued his own education. He graduated in 1922 Baker University in Baldwin City. He also took courses at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. Between 1934 and 1936 he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1938, Geyer was elected in the 17th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the late Charles J. Colden meantime, on 3 January 1939. After a re-election, he could remain until his death on 11 October 1941 in the Congress, where at that time the last New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In July 1940, Geyer was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated to the Roosevelt for a third term.