Louis Thomas McFadden

Louis Thomas McFadden ( born July 25, 1876 in Troy, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, † October 1, 1936 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1935 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Louis McFadden attended the common schools and the Warner 's Commercial College in Elmira (New York). Between 1892 and 1925 he worked in various positions for the First National Bank of Canton; from 1916 he was its president. In the years 1906 and 1907, he served as treasurer of the Pennsylvania Bankers' Association. Between 1914 and 1915 he was also its president. In 1914 he was curator of the Pennsylvania State College. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1914, McFadden was in the 14th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William David Blakeslee Ainey on March 4, 1915. After nine elections he could remain until January 3, 1935 at the Congress. Since 1923 he represented there as the successor of Edgar Raymond Kiess the 15th district of his state. Between 1919 and 1931 he was chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee. In his time as an MP were among others the First World War and the Great Depression. Since 1933, the first New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted, which McFadden and his party faced a rather negative. 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. Also in McFadden's term of office as congressman were the 18th, the 19th, the aforementioned 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

McFadden's political views aroused in the United States quite a stir. He developed a strong anti-Semitism and was considered a supporter of Nazism and Adolf Hitler. In 1932 he was his party in the back, by unsuccessfully sought to impeach the Republican U.S. President Herbert Hoover. 1934 Louis McFadden was not re-elected; two years later he failed in the primaries of his party. He died on October 1, 1936 during a visit to New York.