Milton William Shreve

Milton William Shreve ( May 3, 1858 in Chapmanville, Venango County, Pennsylvania, † December 23, 1939 in Erie, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915, and 1919-1933, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Milton Shreve attended the Edinboro State Normal School and Allegheny College in Meadville. In 1884 he graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started working in Erie in this profession. Between 1899 and 1902 he was district attorney in Erie County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1907 to 1912 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, which he was president in 1911.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Shreve was in the 25th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Arthur Laban Bates on March 4, 1913. Since he has not been confirmed in 1914, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. During this time, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the introduction of the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators. According to the preliminary end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Milton Shreve again practiced as a lawyer in Erie. He also went into the banking business. In addition, he was involved in some craft shops.

In the 1918 elections Shreve was re-elected in the 25th district of his state in Congress, where he replaced Henry Alden Clark on March 4, 1919. After six re- elections he could until March 3, 1933, seven other term in Congress spend. Since 1923 he represented there as successor by Stephen Geyer Porter 29th District of Pennsylvania. Between 1921 and 1923 he worked as an independent candidate in Congress, after which he was again Republicans. During his second term as a Member of the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages as well as the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. Since the end of 1929 the work of the Congress of the Great Depression was coined.

In 1932, Milton Shreve was not re-elected. After his final departure from the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer in Erie again, where he died on 23 December 1939.