Leonard W. Schuetz

Leonard William Schuetz ( born November 16, 1887 in Posen, German Empire, † February 13, 1944 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1944 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Leonard Schuetz was born in 1887 in Poznan, Poland today. Already in the following year he came with his father to Chicago, where he attended the public schools. He attended Lane Technical High School and the Bryant and Stratton Business College, also in Chicago. Until 1906, he worked as a stenographer and secretary. He then worked in the management of the firm Swift & Co. In 1923 he founded the construction company Schuetz Construction Company, whose president and treasurer he was. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1930 Schuetz was selected in the seventh election district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of M. Alfred Michaelson on March 4, 1931. After six re- elections he could remain until his death on February 13, 1944 in Congress. Since 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt; from 1941, the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.