U.S. Congressman. Graduating from Yale University in 1904, he was a real estate agent in Chicago, Illinois, (1905-17) and during World War I, served as a Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, (1917-19). After his discharge, he was vice president of a trust company in Chicago, (1920-24), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1924-27), national treasurer of American National Red Cross (1926-27), was financial adviser to the Polish Government and was director of the Bank of Poland, (1927-30). In 1941, he was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses, serving until 1945. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he resumed the banking business, was an agent general of the Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation, (1948-52) and was chairman in the District of Columbia Chapter of the American Red Cross, (1957-61).
U.S. Congressman. Graduating from Yale University in 1904, he was a real estate agent in Chicago, Illinois, (1905-17) and during World War I, served as a Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, (1917-19). After his discharge, he was vice president of a trust company in Chicago, (1920-24), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1924-27), national treasurer of American National Red Cross (1926-27), was financial adviser to the Polish Government and was director of the Bank of Poland, (1927-30). In 1941, he was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses, serving until 1945. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he resumed the banking business, was an agent general of the Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation, (1948-52) and was chairman in the District of Columbia Chapter of the American Red Cross, (1957-61).
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