- Lee E. Geyer
Lee Edward Geyer (
September 9 ,1888 -October 11 ,1941 ) was a U.S. Representative fromCalifornia .Born in
Wetmore, Kansas , Geyer attended the public schools.He was graduated fromBaker University ,Baldwin City, Kansas , in 1922 and afterwards did post-graduate work at theUniversity of Wisconsin at Madison and theUniversity of Southern California at Los Angeles .He was a teacher in the rural schools inNemaha 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 inKansas, 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 inWashington, D.C. ,October 11 ,1941 .He was interred in Wetmore Cemetery,Wetmore, Kansas .References
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