Max Schwabe (December 6, 1905 – July 31, 1983) was a

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from

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. He was the brother of

George Blaine Schwabe George Blaine Schwabe (July 26, 1886 – April 2, 1952) was an American politician and a Republican U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma. Biography Schwabe was born in Arthur in Vernon County son of George Washington Schwabe and Emily Ellen (Mose) ...

. Schwabe was born in Columbia, Missouri and attended the

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. Prior to his career in politics, he worked as an insurance agent and a farmer. Schwabe was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1949). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-first Congress in 1948. He also worked as the Missouri State director of the Farmers Home Administration in the United States Department of Agriculture from 1953 to 1961. Schwabe died on July 31, 1983, and was interred in Columbia Cemetery.

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