Louis W. Fairfield

Louis William Fairfield (* October 15, 1858 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, † February 20, 1930 in Joliet, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1925 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1866 Louis came to the Fairfield Allen County, Indiana, where his family settled on a farm near Lima. He attended the public schools of his new home and moved in 1872 to Middle Point, Ohio. There he taught for half a year as a teacher. Then he studied until 1876 at Ohio Northern University in Ada. Until 1888 he worked as a teacher again. At the same time he continued his own education at various schools. In the years 1881 and 1882 Fairfield published the newspaper " Hardin County Republican ," which appeared in Kenton.

Since 1885 Fairfield lived in Angola ( Indiana), where he was involved in the founding of Tri - State College. Between 1885 and 1917 he was Vice President and lecturer at this educational institution. Politically, Fairfield member of the Republican Party. In 1912 he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1916, he was then in the twelfth electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Cyrus Cline on March 4, 1917. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1925 four legislative sessions. In this time of the First World War fell. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. From 1923 to 1925 Fairfield was chairman of the Committee on insular affairs.

In 1924, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. In the following years he lived in Angola, where he occasionally worked as a lecturer. Louis Fairfield died on February 20, 1930 during a visit to Illinois and was buried in Angola.