Guy T. Helvering

Guy Tresillian Helvering (January 10, 1878 - July 4, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Born in Felicity, Ohio, Helvering moved to Kansas in 1887 with his parents, who settled in Beattie, Marshall County.He attended the public schools. During the Spanish-American War enlisted as a corporal in Company M, Twenty-second Regiment, Kansas Infantry, and served from May 12 to November 3, 1898.He attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence.He was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1906.He was admitted to the bar in the same year and commenced practice in Marysville, Kansas.He served as prosecuting attorney of Marshall County 1907-1911.He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress.

Helvering was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.He moved to Salina, Kansas, and became engaged in banking.He served as Democratic State chairman 1930-1934.He served as mayor of Salina, Kansas, from February 15, 1926, until his resignation on December 8, 1930. State highway director in 1931 and 1932.

Helvering was appointed Commissioner of Internal Revenue by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 and served in that capacity until his appointment as a federal district judge for Kansas in 1943. He served as a federal judge until his death in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 1946.He was interred in Marysville Cemetery, Marysville, Kansas.

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