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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaWilliam Theodore SCHULTE
(1890-1966)
SCHULTE, William Theodore,
a Representative from Indiana; born in St. Bernard, Platte County,
Nebr., August 19, 1890; attended the public schools of St. Bernard,
Nebr.; moved with his parents to Hammond, Ind., where he attended
high school and received a business training; engaged in the
theatrical business until 1918; also interested in agricultural
pursuits; member of the city council of Hammond, Ind., 1918-1922;
resumed the theatrical business until 1932; elected as a Democrat
to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1933-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination
in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress, coordinator of field
operations in the labor division of the War Production Board,
Washington, D.C., 1942-1944; returned to Lake County, Ind., and
engaged in agricultural pursuits, engaged in the automobile
business at Michigan City, Ind., from October 1947 to March 1949;
sales representative of a construction machinery firm; died in
Hammond, Ind., on December 7, 1966; interment in St. Andrew’s
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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