William T. Schulte

William Theodore Schulte ( born August 19, 1890 in St. Bernard, Platte County, Nebraska, † December 7, 1966 in Hammond, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Schulte attended the public schools of his home. He later moved with his parents to Hammond, Indiana, where he attended high school and a trade school. He then worked with a break until 1932 in the theater industry. He also worked in agriculture. Politically, Schulte member of the Democratic Party. Between 1918 and 1922 he was a member of the City Council of Hammond.

In the congressional elections of 1932 he was the first electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded John W. Boehne took up on March 4, 1933, who moved into the eighth district. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 five legislative sessions. There, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of World War II was determined.

In 1942, William Schulte has not been nominated by his party for re-election. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he was involved until 1944 in the War Production Board. He then returned to the Lake County, Indiana, where he first worked in agriculture. Later he was 1947-1949 in Michigan City in the car trading. Then Schulte was employed as a sales representative at a Construction company. He died on December 7, 1966 in Hammond, where he was also buried.