Raymond Joseph Cannon

Raymond Joseph Cannon ( born August 26, 1894 in Ironwood, Gogebic County, Michigan, † November 25, 1951 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1939 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Raymond Cannon's parents died when he was only six months old. Therefore, he grew up in an orphanage. He attended the common schools and taught 1910-1911 in Minocqua ( Wisconsin) self as a teacher. From 1908 to 1922 he was also a professional baseball player. After studying law at Marquette University in Milwaukee and its made ​​in 1914 admitted to the bar he began in Milwaukee to work in his new profession. In 1930 he applied unsuccessfully for the post of judge at the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Politically Cannon was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1932 he was in the fourth electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John C. Schafer of the Republican Party on March 4, 1933. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 three legislative periods. At this time there many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was adopted by the 18th Amendment of 1919 was repealed. It was about the Prohibition law. Since 1935, Cannon was chairman of the Committee for Ṻberarbeitung the federal laws.

Prior to the elections of 1938, Cannon was not nominated by his party for another term. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. In the years 1940 and 1942 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections. In 1944, he also missed the target nomination for the upcoming congressional elections. He died on November 25, 1951 in Milwaukee. Raymond Cannon was married to Alice Carey, the had three children.