William H. Wheat

William Howard Wheat ( born February 19, 1879 in Kahoka, Clark County, Missouri, † January 16, 1944 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1944 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Wheat attended the public schools in Brookfield and Chillicothe. He then attended the Chaddock College and the Gem City Business College in Quincy (Illinois ). He then worked in Quincy and Bloomington as a clerk in some clothing stores. In 1900 he moved to Thomasboro. There he first worked as an accountant and later as a bank teller. Since 1909 he lived in Rantoul, where he was Vice President and President of several financial institutions. He also worked in agriculture. For some years he was also Treasurer of the schools of his new hometown. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1936 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1938 Wheat but was then elected in the 19th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrat Hugh M. Rigney on January 3, 1939. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on January 16, 1944 in Congress. By 1941, there the last of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.