Walter E. Brehm: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|American politician (1892–1971)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Walter Brehm

|image = Walter Ellsworth Brehm.jpg

|state = [[Ohio]]

|district = {{ushr|OH|11|11th}}

|term_start = January 3, 1943

|term_end = January 3, 1953

|predecessor = [[Harold K. Claypool]]

|successor = [[Oliver P. Bolton]]

|office1 = Member of the [[Ohio House of Representatives]]

|term_start1 = 1938

|term_end1 = 1942

|predecessor1 =

|successor1 =

|birth_name = Walter Ellsworth Brehm

|birth_date = {{birth date|1892|5|25}}

|birth_place = [[Somerset, Ohio]], U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1971|8|24|1892|5|25}}

|death_place = [[Columbus, Ohio]], U.S.

|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]

|education = [[Boston University]]<br>[[Ohio Wesleyan University]]<br>[[Ohio State University]] ([[Doctor of Dental Medicine|DMD]])

Born in [[Somerset, Ohio]], Brehm attended the public schools and worked in [[steel mill]]s, rubber factories, and [[oil field]]s after graduation from high school. He graduated from the [[Ohio State University College of Dentistry]] in Columbus in 1917 and attended [[Boston University]], and [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] at [[Delaware, Ohio]].

Brehm wasaprivate in Company D, Seventh Regiment, [[Ohio National Guard|Ohio Infantry]] from 1908 to 1913.<ref>Form 1 Registration Card (World War I Draft Registration Card), dated June 4, 1917.</ref>

He engaged in the practice of dentistry in [[Logan, Ohio]], from 1921 to 1942.

On December 20, 1950,<ref name=gro410>[[#grossman|Grossman 2003]] : 410</ref> Brehm was indicted by a [[federal grand jury]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], on charges that he accepted campaign contributions of $1000 from his clerk, Emma Craven, and from another clerk, Clara Soliday.<ref name=gro33>[[#grossman|Grossman 2003]] : 33, 34</ref> On April 30, 1951,<ref name=gro410/> Brehm was convicted of taking the contribution from Craven, and acquitted of taking money from Soliday.<ref name=gro33/> On June 11, 1951, Federal Judge [[Burnita Shelton Matthews]] sentenced Brehm to five to fifteen months in prison, and fined him $5000. She suspended the sentence, saying that Brehm had led an exemplary life before the incident.<ref name=gro33/> He never served any time in prison.<ref name=gro410/>

Brehm was not a candidate for reelection in 1952 to the [[83rd United States Congress|Eighty-third]] Congress.

He resided in [[Columbus, Ohio]], until his death there August 24, 1971.

{{s-bef|before=[[Harold K. Claypool]]}}

{{s-ttl|title=Member of the [[List of United States Representatives from Ohio|U.S. House of Representatives]]<br>from [[Ohio's 11th congressional district]]|years=1943–1953}}

{{s-aft|after=[[Oliver P. Bolton]]}}

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