John William Boehne Jr. (March 2, 1895 – July 5, 1973) was an American

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veteran who served six terms as a

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from

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from 1931 to 1942.

Biography

Born in

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, Boehne was the grandson of

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immigrants, and son of John William Boehne, who also served in Congress. He attended the public and parochial schools of Evansville and graduated from the

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in 1918.

World War I

During

he served as a private and sergeant in the Detached Service of the Ordnance Corps of the

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from January 9, 1918, to April 8, 1919. He was secretary and treasurer of Evansville's Indiana Stove Works from 1920 to 1931.

Congress

Boehne was elected as a

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to the Seventy-second Congress. He was reelected five times and served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1943). In 1942, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-eighth Congress.

Later career and death

From 1943 to 1957, Boehne was a corporation tax counselor in

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, and resided in

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. After retiring, he was a resident of

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. He died in Irvington on July 5, 1973, and was buried at

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in Washington, D.C.

Electoral history

References

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