Rudolph G. Tenerowicz

Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz ( born June 14, 1890 in Budapest, Austria - Hungary, † August 31, 1963 in Hamtramck, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1943 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1892, Rudolph Tenerowicz came with his parents from Hungary to the United States, where they settled in Adrian (Pennsylvania). There he attended the public schools. He then studied at various locations in the states of New York and Michigan. After a subsequent study medicine at Loyola University Chicago and its made ​​in 1912 Admitted to the doctor, he began to work in his new profession until 1923 in Chicago. During World War II he was in the years 1917 and 1918 lieutenant in the medical service of the U.S. Army. Between 1919 and 1934 he was a member as a captain in the medical reserve of the Army. In 1923, Rudolph Tenerowicz moved his residence and his medical practice to Hamtramck in Michigan. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

Between 1928 and 1932, and again from 1936 to 1938 he was mayor of the city of Hamtramck. For seven years he was sitting in the County Council ( County Board of Supervisors ) in Wayne County. In the congressional elections of 1938 Tenerowicz was the first electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George G. Sadowski on January 3, 1939. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 two legislative sessions. There, until 1941, further New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted. Since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and the resulting therefrom entry of the United States, the work of the Congress of the events of World War II was determined.

In 1942 Tenerowicz was not nominated by the Democrats for re-election. Then he stepped over to the Republican Party. In the years 1948, 1950, 1952 and 1954, he competed unsuccessfully as their candidate for his return to the Congress. Otherwise, he again worked as a doctor in Hamtramck. He is also passed on 31 August 1963. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Rudolph Tenerowicz was married in 1937 to Margaret Agnes McGuire Tenerowicz, with had a daughter. His wife gave birth to other children from a previous marriage into the family.