William H. Stafford

William Henry Stafford ( born October 12, 1869 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, † April 22, 1957 ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1933 he represented four times the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Stafford attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his made ​​in 1894 admitted to the bar he began in Milwaukee to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1902 he was in the fifth electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel S. Barney on March 4, 1903. After three re- elections he was initially able to complete four legislative sessions in Congress until March 3, 1911. In 1910, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. The elections this year were won by the Socialist Victor L. Berger. In the elections of 1912 Stafford was able to win both the nomination of his party as well as winning the actual election. Consequently, he dissolved on March 4, 1913 Berger again and spent after two re- elections until March 3, 1919 three other legislatures in the U.S. House of Representatives. This period was, among other things, the First World War.

In the congressional elections of 1918 Stafford defeated his predecessor, Victor Berger, who was not approved in Congress. This left the parliamentary mandate of the fifth district of Wisconsin vacant until 1921. In 1920, Stafford was again elected to Congress, where he spent a further legislative period 1921-1923. In the elections of 1922 he once again lost against Berger, who this time was able to take his seat and remained until 1929 in office. Stafford ran unsuccessfully in 1926 against Berger. In 1928 he was elected a second time in the House of Representatives, where he completed his last two legislative periods between 4 March 1929 and 3 March 1933. In 1932, Stafford was not nominated by his party. In 1938, he competed unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for election to the U.S. Senate.

During the phases in which Stafford was not in Congress, and after his final retirement from the Parliament, he worked as a lawyer. He died on 22 April 1957 in his native Milwaukee.

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