Alvin F. Weichel | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromOhio's13th district | |
| In office January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1955 | |
| Preceded by | Albert David Baumhart Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Albert David Baumhart Jr. |
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| Born | Alvin Ferdinand Weichel (1891-09-11)September 11, 1891 Sandusky, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | November 27, 1956(1956-11-27) (aged 65) Sandusky, Ohio, U.S. |
| Resting place | Calvary Cemetery |
| Party | Republican |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch/service | United States Army |
| Years of service | December 14, 1917 – January 31, 1919 |
| Rank | Sergeant |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
Alvin Ferdinand Weichel (September 11, 1891 – November 27, 1956) was an American politician who served as aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromOhio from 1943 to 1955.
Weichel was born inSandusky, Ohio, three of his grandparents wereGerman immigrants.[1]
DuringWorld War I, he enlisted on December 14, 1917, and assigned to Company P, Ordnance Training Camp, and later to Headquarters Supply Company atCamp Hancock, Georgia, and was discharged a sergeant on January 31, 1919. He was appointed second lieutenant, Ordnance Section, Officers' Reserve Corps, December 10, 1918, and commission terminated December 8, 1928.
He was graduated fromFerris Institute inBig Rapids, Michigan, from theUniversity of Michigan atAnn Arbor, and from theUniversity of Michigan Law School in 1924. He was admitted to the bar in 1924. He served as commissioner of insolvents for the State of Ohio, and prosecuting attorney ofErie County, Ohio, from 1931 to 1937.
He served as special counsel for the attorney general of Ohio and a lecturer for the School Police Administration at theOhio State University inColumbus, Ohio.
Weichel was elected as a Republican to theSeventy-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries during theEightieth andEighty-third Congresses. Weichel made national media attention when he claimed that the Soviet Union had failed to return lend-leased ships. Weichel issued a subpoena for U.S. army General and then Secretary of StateGeorge C Marshall drawing criticism from many of his colleagues.[2] The subpoena was withdrawn after no evidence of Soviet reluctance was found.[3] He was not a candidate for renomination in1954.
He resumed the practice of law and died in Sandusky, Ohio, on November 27, 1956. Interment in Calvary Cemetery.
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