Lewis M. Long

Lewis Marshall Long ( born June 22, 1883 in Gardner, Grundy County, Illinois, † September 9, 1957 in Sandwich, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1939 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lewis Long attended the public schools in Aurora and then the Plano High School. This is followed by a study at the University of Illinois at Urbana joined. Between 1904 and 1930 he worked in Plano and Sandwich in the local telegraph office. After studying law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago and his 1930 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to practice in Sandwich in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1922 and 1926 he sat in the council of Sandwich; in the years 1935 and 1936 he was mayor of that city. From 1932 to 1936 he also served on the local Board of Education.

In the congressional elections of 1936, Long was the 27th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the meantime resigned Michael L. Igoe on January 3, 1937. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1938, he was able to spend only one term in Congress until January 3, 1939. During this time other New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Lewis Long Long again worked as a lawyer. In 1940 he applied unsuccessfully to the re-entry into the Congress. Between 1939 and 1941 he worked for the Department of Transportation ( Division of Motor Carriers ) of the State of Illinois. He died on September 9, 1957 in Sandwich, where he was also buried.