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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaCharles Marion LA FOLLETTE
(1898-1974)
LA FOLLETTE, Charles
Marion, (great-grandson of William Heilman), a
Representative from Indiana; born in New Albany, Floyd County,
Ind., February 27, 1898; moved with his parents to Evansville,
Ind., in 1901; attended the public schools and entered Wabash
College at Crawfordsville, Ind., in September 1916; during the
First World War enlisted in the United States Army and served with
the One Hundred and Fifty-first Infantry, Thirty-eighth Division,
1917-1919, with four months overseas; attended Wabash College until
June 1921; studied law at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.,
in 1921 and also in law offices in Dayton, Ohio, and Evansville,
Ind.; was admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice in
Evansville, Ind.; member of the State house of representatives
1927-1929; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the
Seventy-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1947); was not
a candidate for reelection in 1946 but was an unsuccessful
candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator;
deputy chief of counsel for war crimes, Nuremberg, Germany, from
January 4, 1947, to December 15, 1947; director of the Office of
Military Government for Wurttemberg-Baden, Germany, from December
15, 1947, to January 16, 1949; appointed a director of Americans
for Democratic Action on July 1, 1949, serving until May 1, 1950;
member of first Subversive Activities Contol Board, 1950-1951; died
in Trenton, N.J., June 27, 1974; cremated; ashes interred at Locust
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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