Peter J. Somers

Peter J. Somers ( born April 12, 1850 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, † February 15, 1924 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1895 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter Somers attended the public schools of his home, the Whitewater Normal School and the Waukesha Academy. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1874 admitted to the bar he began in Milwaukee to work in his new profession. Between 1882 and 1884 he was there -city lawyer. In 1890 he was elected to the city council, whose chairman he was. Between 1890 and 1893 he served as mayor of Milwaukee.

Somers was a member of the Democratic Party. Following the resignation of Congressman John L. Mitchell, he was at the due election for the fourth seat of Wisconsin as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 27 August 1893. Since he did not run in the regular congressional elections of 1894, he could only finish the opened term of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1895.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Somers first worked again as a lawyer in Milwaukee. In 1905 he moved to Reno, Nevada, where he also practiced law. Between 1907 and 1909 he was chairman of the Democratic Party in Nevada. From 1908 to 1914 he also served as a judge in the local Esmeralda County. He then continued his legal practice. Peter Somers died on February 15, 1924 in Los Angeles.

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