Thomas F. Konop

Thomas Frank Konop ( born August 17, 1879 in Franklin, Wisconsin, † October 17, 1964 in San Pierre, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1917 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Konop visited the Two Rivers High School, the Oshkosh State Normal School and the Northern Illinois College of Law. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and its made ​​in 1904 admitted to the bar he began in Kewaunee (Wisconsin ) to work in his new profession. Between 1905 and 1911 he was district attorney in Kewaunee County. Then he moved and his law firm to Green Bay.

Politically, Konop member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1910 he was in the ninth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Gustav Küstermann on March 4, 1911. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 three legislative periods. Since 1913 he was chairman of the Committee for the control of expenditure on public buildings.

In the 1916 elections Konop was defeated by Republican David G. Classon. In the following years he worked as a lawyer in Madison. Between 1917 and 1922 he worked in the Industry Commission of the State of Wisconsin with. At the same time he was also a member of the Education Council of his state. In 1922, Konop moved to Milwaukee, where he worked as a lawyer until 1923. Between 1923 and 1941 he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Until his retirement in 1950, he remained as a professor at this university. Until 1962 he lived in South Bend. He died on October 17, 1964 in San Pierre, and was buried in South Bend.