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Lee E. Geyer
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 17th district | |
| In office January 3, 1939 - October 11, 1941 | |
| Preceded by | Charles J. Colden |
| Succeeded by | Cecil R. King |
| Member of the California State Assembly from the 67th district | |
| In office January 7, 1935 - January 4, 1937 | |
| Preceded by | Cecil R. King |
| Succeeded by | Cecil R. King |
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| Born | Lee Edward Geyer (1888-09-09)September 9, 1888 Wetmore, Kansas, US |
| Died | October 11, 1941(1941-10-11) (aged 53) Washington, D.C., US |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Baker University University of Southern California |
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| Branch/service |  United States Army |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
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Lee Edward Geyer (September 9, 1888 – October 11, 1941) was an American educator and World War I veteran who served as a U.S. Representative from California from 1939 to 1941. He died in office during his only term in Congress.
Born in Wetmore, Kansas, Geyer attended the public schools. He was graduated from Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, in 1922 and afterwards did post-graduate work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. He was a teacher in the rural schools in Nemaha County, Kansas from 1908 to 1912 and principal of Hamlin (Kansas) High School between 1916 and 1918. During the First World War served as a private in the Third Company, First Battalion, Central Officers' Training School, Camp Grant, Illinois. He was a teacher and administrator in high schools in Kansas, Arizona and California from 1919 to 1938. He served as member of the State Assembly from 1935 to 1937. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.
Geyer was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death. He authored the first anti-poll tax legislation which had not passed at the time of his death but was continued by others to become the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1940.
He died in Washington, D.C., October 11, 1941 from pneumonia.[1] He was interred in Wetmore Cemetery, Wetmore, Kansas.
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 17th congressional district 1939–1941 |
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