Stephen Bolles

Stephen Bolles ( born June 25, 1866 in Springboro, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, † July 8, 1941 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1941 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Bolles attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1888, the State Normal School of Pennsylvania. He then studied at Milton College in Wisconsin law. But he has obviously never worked as a lawyer. Between 1893 and 1901 he worked in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York in the newspaper business, among others, as a reporter, correspondent, editor and publisher. During the Pan - American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901, he headed the press. He was an eyewitness to the assassination of President William McKinley.

Politically, Bolles member of the Republican Party. In 1894 he was the Chairman of the Eleventh Congressional District of Ohio. He was also the party executive of the city of Toledo. In 1896 he was in the 26th Congressional District of Pennsylvania campaign manager of his party. From 1902 to 1903 Bolles published the newspaper " Buffalo Enquirer ". In the following years, he held high office at various exhibitions. Later Bolles was also active as a writer and began a new career as a businessman. Between 1907 and 1919 he worked in the stock market business in Atlanta (Georgia ). In 1920 he moved to Janesville in Wisconsin. There he again worked in the newspaper business. He also continued his political career. In 1928 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, was nominated on the Herbert Hoover as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1938, Stephen Bolles was elected in the first district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Thomas Ryum Amlie on January 3, 1939. After a re-election in 1940, he could remain until his death on July 8, 1941 at the Congress. During this time other New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there have been adopted. After a by-election from his position fell to Lawrence H. Smith.

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