Henry S. Reuss
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Henry Schoellkopf Reuss (February 22, 1912 - January 12, 2002) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
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[edit] Education and early career
He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Reuss earned his A.B. from Cornell University in 1933 and was a member of the Sphinx Head Society. He then earned his L.L.B. from Harvard University in 1936. He was a lawyer in private practice and business executive. He served as assistant corporation counsel for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin from 1939 to 1940 and Counsel for United States Office of Price Administration from 1941 to 1942.
[edit] World War II
He was in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945. He served as chief of price control, Office of Military Government for Germany in 1945, and deputy general counsel for the Marshall Plan, Paris, France in 1949.
[edit] Attorney after World War II
He became a special prosecutor for Milwaukee County in 1950. He served as member of the school board for Milwaukee from 1953 to 1954. He served as member of legal advisory committee, United States National Resources Board from 1948 to 1952. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Milwaukee in 1960.
[edit] Congressman
Reuss was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1983). He served as chair of the Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing in the Ninety-fourth Congress. He served as chair of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs in the Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses. He served as chair of the Joint Economic Committee in the Ninety-seventh Congress. He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982.
[edit] Author
His 1976 book On the Trail of the Ice Age inspired the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin.
[edit] Death
He died on January 12, 2002, in San Rafael, California.
