William Emil Hess (February 13, 1898 – July 14, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician who served three lengthy, non-consecutive stints as a

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and a U.S. Representative from

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between 1929 and 1961.

Biography

Born in

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, February 13, 1898; attended the public schools, the

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, Cincinnati, Ohio, and

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; during the First World War served in the

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as a private; was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, the same year; member of the Cincinnati City Council 1922–1926. He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929 – January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress. He resumed the practice of law; elected to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1949); from early 1940 until the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hess was an interventionist and advocated helping Great Britain in the second world war. Hess was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected to the Eighty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951 – January 3, 1961); was not a candidate for renomination in 1960; resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, until his death there on July 14, 1986; interment in

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. Hess voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and

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