William A. Ekwall

William Alexander Ekwall ( born June 14, 1887 in Ludington, Mason County, Michigan, † October 16, 1956 in Portland, Oregon) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1893, William Ekwall came with his parents to Klamathon in California before the family moved on to Portland in 1906. He attended the public schools in these two places, and then studied until 1912 at the University of Oregon law. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began his new job in Portland exercise. During the First World War he was a soldier in the U.S. Army. Between 1922 and 1927 served as a municipal judge Ekwall in Portland From 1937 to 1935 he was a judge in the fourth judicial district of Oregon.

Ekwall was a member of the Republican Party. In 1934 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Charles Martin on 3 January 1935. But since he lost the following elections in 1936 against the Democrat Nan Wood Honeyman, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1937. After his political activity Ekwall worked 1937-1942 again as a lawyer in Portland. In 1940 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. In 1942 he became a judge of the Federal Court of Customs (United States Customs Court ), headquartered in New York City appointed. This office he held until his death in 1956.