M. Alfred Michaelson

Magne Alfred Michaelson ( born September 7, 1878 in Kristiansand, Norway, † 26 October 1949 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1931 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1885, Alfred Michaelson came with his parents from his native Norway to Chicago. He attended the public schools of his new home and the Chicago Normal School, where he graduated in 1898. Between 1898 and 1914 he worked as a teacher. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1915 to 1918 he sat on the city council of Chicago; in 1920 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Illinois. Michaelson has been renowned in the banking industry. In the years 1924-1927 he was a board member of the Madison and Kedzie State Bank of Chicago.

In the congressional elections of 1920, Michaelson was in the seventh election district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Niels Juul on March 4, 1921. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 4, 1931 five legislative sessions. In 1930, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. In 1929 he was arrested for bootlegging, but his brother took the blame. Michaelson was not prosecuted.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Alfred Michaelson did not occur in a political phenomenon. He died on 26 October 1949 in Chicago, where he was also buried.