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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWalter Christian PLOESER
(1907-1993)
PLOESER, Walter Christian,
a Representative from Missouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., January 7,
1907; attended the public schools of St. Louis, Mo., Casper and
Lusk, Wyo., and the City College of Law and Finance, St. Louis,
Mo.; engaged in the insurance business in St. Louis, Mo., in 1922
and founded his own company in 1933; organizer and chairman of the
board of Marine Underwriters Corp. 1935; served in the State house
of representatives in 1931 and 1932; elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1941-January 3, 1949); chairman, Select Committee on Small Business
(Eightieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948
to the Eighty-first Congress; delegate, Republican National
Conventions, 1964 and 1968; resumed the insurance business;
director of Webster Groves Trust Company; Ambassador to Paraguay
1957-1959; chairman of board, Salvation Army, 1967-1969; Ambassador
to Costa Rica 1970-1972; was a resident of St. Louis, Mo., until
his death on November 17, 1993.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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