Pehr G. Holmes

Pehr Gustaf Holmes ( born April 9, 1881 in Mölnbacka, Värmland, Sweden, † December 19, 1952 in Venice, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1947 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1886 Pehr Holmes came with his parents from his native Sweden to Worcester in Massachusetts. He attended the public schools and worked in the craft. Later he also worked in the banking industry and the insurance business. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1908 and 1911, and again from 1913 to 1926 he was a member of the council of Worcester and the Council of Elders. Between 1917 and 1919 he served as Mayor of Worcester. From 1925 to 1928 he served on the senior staff of the Governor.

In the congressional elections of 1930, Holmes was in the fourth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George R. Stobbs on March 4, 1931. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1947 eight legislatures. Since 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom Holmes's party faced a rather negative. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked.

In 1946, Holmes was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked in the field of electroforming. He died on December 19, 1952 in Venice.