Edwin Martin Schaefer was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Illinois

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Born in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois, Schaefer attended the public schools, Western Military Academy

Western Military Academy

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, Alton, Illinois

Alton, Illinois

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, and the University of Illinois at Urbana.
He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis

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, Missouri, in 1910.
Chemical engineer with Morris &.
Co., packers, East St. Louis, Illinois from 1913 to 1916, assistant general superintendent 1916–1918, and general superintendent 1919–1928.
He served as assistant recorder of deeds of St. Clair County, Illinois from 1928 to 1930.
County treasurer of St. Clair County, Illinois from 1930 to 1932.
He served as delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1928, 1932, and 1936.

Schaefer was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Seventy-third

73rd United States Congress

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 and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1943).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1942.
He served as member of the board of directors of Griesediech-Western Brewery Co., Belleville, Illinois

Belleville, Illinois

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, at the time of his death.
He died in St. Louis, Missouri, November 8, 1950.
He was interred in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Belleville, Illinois

Belleville, Illinois

Belleville is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city has a population of 44,478. It is the eighth-most populated city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area and the most populated city south of Springfield in the state of Illinois. It is the county...

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