Victor Christgau

Victor Laurence August Christgau ( born September 20, 1894 with Austin, Minnesota; † 10 October 1991 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1933 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Victor Christgau attended the public schools of his home, including the Austin High School. Subsequently, he studied until 1917 at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. During World War II he was employed as a soldier in the U.S. Army in Europe. After the war he initially continued his studies until 1923. He then worked in agriculture.

Politically, Christgau joined the Republican Party. Between 1927 and 1929 he sat in the Senate from Minnesota. In the congressional elections of 1928, he was elected in the first district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Allen J. Furlow on March 4, 1929. After a re-election in 1930 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 two legislative sessions. In this time of onset of the Great Depression fell. Shortly before the end of his second term of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, by the beginning of the terms of office of the President and the legislative sessions of Congress were brought forward from March 4 to 20, and 3 January. This change occurred in 1935 and remain in force until today. In 1932, Christgau was not nominated by his party for another term.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Christgau again worked in agriculture. Until 1938 he held a number of official positions in agricultural authorities. Between 1939 and 1954 he headed the labor and social authority of the State of Minnesota. After that, he was from 1954 to 1963 director of the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance, Social Security Administration. Until 1967 he was head of the Federal Social Security Administration in Washington. Victor Christgau also spent his life in the federal capital, where he died on 10 October 1991.

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