Walter C. Ploeser

Walter Christian Ploeser ( born January 7, 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri, † November 17, 1993 ) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1949 he represented the State of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Ploeser attended the common schools and Wyoming. He then studied at the City College of Law and Finance in St. Louis. He then worked from 1922 in the insurance industry. In 1933 he founded his own company. In 1935, he called the Marine Underwriters Corp.. into life, whose board he served then. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In 1931 and 1932 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Missouri.

In the congressional elections of 1940 was Ploeser in the twelfth electoral district of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Arthur Anderson on January 3, 1941. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1949 four legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Since 1947 he was chairman of the Select Committee on Small Business.

1948 Ploeser defeated Democrat Raymond W. Karst. In the years 1964 and 1968 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant. Otherwise, he continued working in the insurance industry. He became a director at the company Webster Groves Trust Company. Between 1957 and 1958 he was the successor of Arthur A. Ageton United States ambassador to Paraguay; 1970-1972 he held this activity in Costa Rica. He also appeared in the years 1967 to 1969 Chairman of the Salvation Army. Walter Ploeser died on 17 November 1993 in St. Louis.