Thomas Ryum Amlie

Thomas Ryum Amlie (* April 17, 1897 at Binford, Griggs County, North Dakota; † August 22, 1973 in Madison, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1931 and 1933, and again from 1935 to 1939, he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Amlie attended the public schools of his home including the Cooperstown High School. He studied at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and then at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and its made in 1923 admitted to the bar he began in Beloit to work in his new profession. In 1927 he moved his office and his residence to Elkhorn.

Politically, Amlie then a member of the Republican Party. After the death of Congressman Henry A. Cooper, he was at the election due to the first seat of Wisconsin as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. He resigned on October 13, 1931 at its new mandate. Since he was not nominated for the following regular congressional elections of 1932 by his party, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1933. On 4 March 1933, nominated in his place and then also selected George Washington Blanchard succeeded him.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Amlie left the Republican Party and became a member of the regional Wisconsin Progressive Party, which was very strong in his home state. In the 1934 elections, he was re-elected as its candidate in the first election District of Wisconsin in Congress. There he broke on January 3, 1935 George Blanchard again. After a re-election in 1936 he was able to spend in Congress until January 3, 1939 two legislative sessions. During this time, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1938 renounced Amlie a renewed candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he competed unsuccessfully for the Progressive Party for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In 1939 he was appointed by President Roosevelt in the Interstate Commerce Commission. Thomas Amlie rejected this nomination but. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He was also a writer. He spent his last years in Madison, where he died on 22 August 1973.

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