Stephen A. Day

Stephen Albion Day ( born July 13, 1882 in Canton, Ohio; † January 5, 1950 in Evanston, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1945 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Day attended the common schools and the University School in Cleveland. After he graduated from the Asheville School in North Carolina. This was followed up in 1905 to study at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1905 to 1907 he was secretary of the Supreme Judge Melville W. Fuller. According to its own law studies at the University of Michigan and his 1907 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Cleveland in this profession. In 1908 he moved to Evanston, Illinois. In the adjacent Chicago, he continued his legal practice. In the years 1926 and 1928 he was legal adviser to the Monetary Commission ( Counsel to the Comptroller of the Currency ).

Politically Day was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1940 he was in the 26th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat John C. Martin on January 3, 1941. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1945 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of World War II.

In 1944, Day was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on January 5, 1950 in Evanston.