S. Wallace Dempsey

Stephen Wallace Dempsey ( born May 8, 1862 in Hartland, Niagara County, New York; † 1 March 1949 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1931 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Wallace Dempsey attended the public schools of his home. In 1880 he graduated from the De Veaux School in Niagara Falls. After a subsequent law degree in 1886 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Lockport to work in this profession. Between 1889 and 1907, he was Deputy Attorney General; 1907 to 1912 he was entrusted as a prosecutor in the U.S. Justice Department with the charges against the Standard Oil Company and some railway companies. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Dempsey was voted the 40th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrats Robert H. Gittins on March 4, 1915. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1931 eight legislatures. In this time of the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or to the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. Since the autumn of 1929, the work of the Congress was shaped by the events of the Great Depression.

From 1921 to 1931, Dempsey Chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. In 1930, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Wallace Dempsey practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 1 March 1949 in the German capital Washington.