William J. Sears
William Joseph Sears ( born December 4, 1874 in Smithville, Lee County, Georgia, † March 30, 1944 in Kissimmee, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1929 and again between 1933 and 1937, he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
William Sears moved still in its infancy with his parents to Ellaville and then in January 1881 to Kissimmee in Florida, where he attended the public schools. He then studied at Florida State College in Lake City and then to 1895 at Mercer University in Macon (Georgia ). After studying law and its made in 1905 admitted to the bar in Kissimmee Sears began to work in his new profession. Between 1907 and 1911 he was mayor of that city. In the years 1905-1915 he served as school board in Osceola County.
Politically, Sears member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1914 he was in the fourth electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Claude L' Engle on March 4, 1915. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1929 seven legislative sessions. In this time of the First World War and the adoption of the 18th and the 19th constitutional amendment fell. Between 1917 and 1919 Sears was Chairman of the Education Committee.
1928 Sears was not nominated by his party for re-election. In the following years he practiced law in Orlando and Jacksonville. In the congressional elections of 1932, he was then in the then newly- fifth District of Florida re-elected to Congress, where he could spend 1937 two other legislative periods between March 4, 1933 and January 3. During this time, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were discussed and adopted. In 1933 was repealed with the 21st Amendment to the Constitution of the 18th Amendment in 1919 again. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages.
In 1936 William Sears missed the nomination for re-election. As a result, he was in an appeal committee of Veterans Affairs until 1942 a member. Then he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Kissimmee, where he died on March 30, 1944.