- Edwin V. Champion
Edwin Van Meter Champion (
September 18 ,1890 -February 11 ,1976 ) was a U.S. Representative fromIllinois . Born inMansfield, Illinois , Champion attended the public schools. He was graduated from the law department of theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana , 1912. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice inPeoria, Illinois .During the
First World War , Champion entered the Officers' Training Camp atFort Sheridan, Illinois , onMay 15 ,1917 .He was commissioned asecond lieutenant and assigned to service overseas with the Three Hundred and Forty-first Infantry, Company C, Eighty-sixth Division. He was discharged with rank ofcaptain onFebruary 6 ,1919 .Champion served as assistant State's attorney of
Peoria County, Illinois , in 1919 and 1920 and as State's attorney 1932-1936.He served as president of the Illinois State's Attorneys' Association in 1935.Champion was elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3 ,1937 -January 3 ,1939 ). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1938 to theSeventy-sixth Congress . After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law inPeoria, Illinois , where he diedFebruary 11 ,1976 . He was buried in Springdale Mausoleum.References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.