Lee E. Geyer

Lee Edward Geyer (September 9, 1888 - October 11, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from California.

Born in Wetmore, Kansas, Geyer attended the public schools.He was graduated from Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, in 1922 and afterwards did post-graduate work at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.He was a teacher in the rural schools in Nemaha County, Kansas from 1908 to 1912. Principal of Hamlin (Kansas) High School 1916-1918. During the First World War served as a private in the Third Company, First Battalion, Central Officers' Training School, Camp Grant, Illinois.He was a teacher and administrator in high schools in Kansas, Arizona, and California from 1919 to 1938.He served as member of the State house of representatives 1934-1936.He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.

Geyer was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death.He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1940.He died in Washington, D.C., October 11, 1941.He was interred in Wetmore Cemetery, Wetmore, Kansas.

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