William H. Stevenson

William Henry Stevenson ( born September 23, 1891 in Kenosha, Wisconsin; † 19 March 1978 in La Crosse, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1941 and 1949 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Stevenson was already in 1894 with his parents to La Crosse. There he attended the public schools. Subsequently, he studied until 1912 at the local teachers college. Between 1912 and 1916 he taught in various cities in Wisconsin as a teacher. Then he studied until 1919 at the University of Wisconsin. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1920 admitted to the bar he began in Richland Center to work in his new profession. Between 1922 and 1924 he was court officer and divorce consultant in Richland County. From 1924 to 1926 he was district attorney in the same county. In 1930, he returned to La Crosse, where he worked as a private lawyer. Between 1935 and 1941 he was also active in the La Crosse County district attorney.

Politically, Stevenson member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1940 he was in the third electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the meantime deceased Harry W. Griswold on January 4, 1941. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1949 four legislative sessions. These were determined to 1945 by the events of World War II and then of its consequences. At that time also began the Cold War.

1948 Stevenson was not nominated by his party for another term of office. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. Meanwhile, he was also admitted in the Supreme Court of the United States as a lawyer. His last years were spent Stevenson in Onalaska. He died on 19 March 1978 in La Crosse and was buried in Onalaska.