Alvin F. Weichel
Alvin F. Weichel | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 13th district | |
In office January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955 | |
Preceded by | Albert David Baumhart Jr. |
Succeeded by | Albert David Baumhart Jr. |
Personal details | |
Born | party Republican September 11, 1891 Sandusky, Ohio |
Died | November 27, 1956 Sandusky, Ohio - | (aged 65)
Resting place | Calvary Cemetery - - |
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Allegiance | United States |
Branch/service | United States Army |
Years of service | December 14, 1917-January 31, 1919 |
Rank | sergeant |
Battles/wars | World War I |
Alvin Ferdinand Weichel (September 11, 1891 – November 27, 1956) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio.
Life and politics
Weichel was born in Sandusky, Ohio, three of his grandparents were German immigrants.[1] During World War I, he enlisted on December 14, 1917, and assigned to Company P, Ordnance Training Camp, and later to Headquarters Supply Company at Camp Hancock, Georgia, and was discharged a sergeant on January 31, 1919. He was appointed second lieutenant, Ordnance Section, Officers' Reserve Corps, December 10, 1918, and commission terminated December 8, 1928. He was graduated from Ferris Institute in Big Rapids, Michigan, from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1924. He was admitted to the bar in 1924. He served as commissioner of insolvents for the State of Ohio, and prosecuting attorney of Erie County, Ohio, from 1931 to 1937. He served as special counsel for the attorney general of Ohio and a lecturer for the School Police Administration at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Weichel was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries during the Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1954. He resumed the practice of law and died in Sandusky, Ohio, on November 27, 1956. Interment in Calvary Cemetery.
References
- United States Congress. "Alvin F. Weichel (id: W000252)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2009-03-01
- The Political Graveyard
- ^ "United States Census, 1900", FamilySearch, retrieved March 21, 2018
- 1891 births
- 1956 deaths
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
- Ohio Republicans
- American military personnel of World War I
- Ohio State University faculty
- American people of German descent
- Politicians from Sandusky, Ohio
- University of Michigan Law School alumni
- Ferris State University alumni
- United States Army officers
- County district attorneys in Ohio
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- 20th-century American politicians