Frederick Steiwer

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Frederick Steiwer (October 13, 1883 - February 3, 1939) was a United States Senator from Oregon. Born on a farm near Jefferson, Oregon, he attended the public schools, graduated from Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis in 1902 and from the University of Oregon at Eugene in 1906. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Pendleton in 1909, and was also interested in agricultural pursuits.

Steiwer was deputy district attorney in 1909-1910 and district attorney from 1912 to 1916. He was a member of the Oregon Senate in 1916-1917, and enlisted in the United States Army during the First World War, serving from 1917 to 1919 in the Sixty-fifth Field Artillery with rank of first lieutenant. He was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1926. He won with only 39% of the vote, running against Democrat Bert Haney and incumbent Robert N. Stanfield, a former Republican running for reelection as an independent. He was reelected in 1932 and served from March 4, 1927 until January 31, 1938, when he resigned. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments (Seventy-second Congress).

He continued the practice of law in Washington, D.C. until his death there in 1939; interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.