Samuel Winslow

Samuel Ellsworth Winslow ( * April 11, 1862 in Worcester, Massachusetts, † July 11, 1940 ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1925 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Winslow attended the public schools of his home and then to 1880 the Worcester Classical High School and the Williston Seminary in East Hampton. By 1885 Winslow studied at Harvard University. He then introduced her skates. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1890 he was a member of the senior staff Colonel by Governor John Brackett. Between 1890 and 1892 led Winslow the Republican Party in Worcester; 1893 to 1894 he was Chairman of the State. In June 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, on William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Winslow 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 William Wilder on March 4, 1913. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1925 seven legislative sessions. Since 1921 he was chairman of the Committee on the Internal and Foreign Trade. During his time in Congress, the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. In 1924, Samuel Winslow gave up another Congress candidate.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Winslow was a member of 1926-1934 the Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Commission between shipping companies and their employees. There he rose to the Commission Chairman. He died on July 11, 1940 in his hometown of Worcester.