Carl R. Chindblom

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Carl Richard Chindblom (December 21, 1870 – September 12, 1956) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.[1]

Biography

Born in

Lake Forest University, now part of Chicago-Kent College of Law) at Chicago in 1898. He was a teacher at Martin Luther College in Chicago 1893–1896.[3]

He was

county attorney of Cook County 1912–1914. He served as master in chancery of the circuit court of Cook County 1916–1918.[4]

Chindblom was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1933).[5]

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932. He resumed the practice of law in

Chicago, Illinois, September 12, 1956. He was interred in Ridgewood Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Chindblom, Carl Richard". U. S. House of Representatives Office of the Historian. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  2. ^ "United States Census, 1880", FamilySearch, retrieved March 13, 2018
  3. ^ "Class of 1898". Class Composites. January 1898. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  4. Svenska Amerikanaren
    . October 29, 1908. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  5. ^ "Chindblom, Honorable Carl R., Representative from Illinois". Northwestern University. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  6. ^ "Chindblom, Carl Richard (1870-1956)". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved April 1, 2020.

Other sources

  • Martin J. Engberg (1908) History of the Swedes of Illinois, Volumes 1-3 (Engberg-Holmberg)

External links

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 10th congressional district
1919–1933 		Succeeded by
James Simpson, Jr.
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