Leo Kocialkowski

Leo Paul Kocialkowski ( born August 16, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, † September 27, 1958 ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth Leo Kocialkowski became orphans. He attended private schools and graduated from a course in economics. He then worked in various positions at several stores in Chicago. Between 1916 and 1932 he was employed in the administration of Cook County in the tax department. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In June 1928 he took part in Houston as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

In the congressional elections of 1932 Kocialkowski was in the eighth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Stanley H. Kunz on March 4, 1933. After four elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1943 five legislative sessions. Since 1935 he was chairman of the Committee on insular affairs. During his time in Congress, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends or begins on January 3. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In 1942 Kocialkowski was not nominated by his party for re-election. Between 1945 and 1949 he was a member of the Civil Service Commission in Cook County. He died on 27 September 1958 in Chicago, where he was also buried.