Roy Wier

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Roy William Wier (February 25, 1888 – June 27, 1963) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Redfield, Spink County, South Dakota, February 25, 1888; moved with his parents in 1896 to Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN; attended the public schools and North High School; learned the telephone and electrical trade, later going into theatrical stage-lighting work; during the First World War served in the United States Army for eighteen months, with overseas service; in 1920 became active in the trade-union movement in Minneapolis and had been officially a representative of the Trades and Labor Assembly of Minneapolis; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives 1933 – 1939; member of the Minneapolis Board of Education 1939 – 1948 and the board of directors of Hennepin County Red Cross; elected as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to the Eighty-first and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1961); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress; was a resident of Minneapolis, MN, until May 1962, when he moved to Edmonds, WA; died in Seattle, WA, June 27, 1963; remains were cremated and the ashes deposited in the columbarium of Evergreen Washelli Cemetery.

Preceded by: George MacKinnon

U.S. Representative from the 3rd Congressional District of Minnesota 1949 – 1961

Succeeded by: Clark MacGregor