William Wedemeyer

William Walter Wedemeyer ( born March 22, 1873 in Lima, Washtenaw County, Michigan; † January 2, 1913 in Colón, Panama ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Wedemeyer attended the public schools of his home, including the Ann Arbor High School. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1895 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession from 1899 in Ann Arbor. Between 1894 and 1895, Wedemeyer was a member of the school board (Board of School Examiners ). From 1895 to 1897 he served as District Council ( County Commissioner of Schools ) and from 1897 to 1899 as deputy railway commissioner of the state of Michigan. Politically, Wedemeyer member of the Republican Party. In 1903 he was chairman of the regional convention in Michigan. In the summer of 1905, he was an American Consul in Georgetown ( British Guiana ).

Between 1906 and 1910, Wedemeyer was on the board of his party on at the state level. In the congressional elections of 1910 he was in the second electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles E. Townsend on March 4, 1911. Since he Democrat Samuel Beakes defeated in the elections of 1912, he could do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1913. Wedemeyer did not live to the official end of his term, however. At the turn of 1912/1913 he was a member of a congressional delegation that traveled to Latin America. Apparently he suffered since his election defeat in November 1912 at depression. On arrival of his ship in the port of Colón on January 2, 1913, he jumped overboard and drowned in the floods. His remains were never found.

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