Solomon F. Prouty

Solomon Francis Prouty ( born January 17, 1854 in Delaware, Ohio; † July 16, 1927 in Des Moines, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1915 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1855, Solomon Prouty moved one year old with his father in the Marion County, Iowa. There he attended the public schools and from 1870 to 1873 and later to 1877, the Central University at Pella. Meanwhile, he was enrolled from 1873 to 1875 at Simpson College in Indianola. From 1878 to 1882 he taught himself at the Central University. After studying law and its made ​​in 1882 admitted to the bar he began in Pella to work in his new profession. In 1891 he moved his office and his residence to Des Moines; In 1899, he was there, District Judge.

Politically, Prouty member of the Republican Party. In the years 1880 and 1881 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa. 1902, 1904 and 1908, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in each case. In the congressional elections of 1910 Prouty was then in the seventh election district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John AT Hull on March 4, 1911. After a re-election in 1912 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1915 two coherent legislative periods. At this time there were the 16th and the 17th Amendment, discussed and adopted. It was about the nationwide income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators.

1914 renounced Prouty on another candidacy. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again and was curator of the Central University. Solomon Prouty died on July 16, 1927 in Des Moines.