Ralph
E. Church (Northwestern 1909)
past U.S. House Representative of Illinois
(1883-1950) -- of Evanston, Cook County, Ill.
Husband of Marguerite Stitt Church.
Born near Catlin, Vermilion County, Ill., May 5, 1883.
Member of Illinois State House of Representatives, 1917-32
U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1935-41, 1943-50 (10th District 1935-41,
1943-49, 13th District 1949-50)
died in office 1950
Member, American Bar Association; Shriners; Kiwanis; Delta Chi Fraternity;
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.
Died in a committee meeting in the House Office Building, Washington, D.C.,
March 21, 1950. Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill. See also:
congressional biography.
born on a farm near Catlin, Vermilion County, Ill., on May 5, 1883
graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1907 and from the
law department of Northwestern University where he was a member of the Delta
Chi Fraternity, Evanston, Ill., in 1909
admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.
elected to the State house of representatives in 1916, resigning during the
First World War to attend the Reserve Officers' Training Camp
again a member of the State house of representatives 1917-1932
lieutenant commander in the United States Naval Reserve 1938-1941
elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth
Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1941); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1940
an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for United States Senator
delegate to the Interparliamentary Conference at Oslo, Norway, in 1939
again elected to the Seventy-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses
and served from Jan. 3, 1943, until his death Mar. 21, 1950, while appearing
before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, in the
House Office Building, Washington, D.C.; interment in Memorial Park, Skokie,
Ill.
Congressman Ralph Church digging trenches at Fort Sheridan, Chicago in 1917:
