Edwin Van Meter

Edwin Van Meter, a Representative from Illinois; born in Mansfield, Piatt County, Ill., September 18, 1890; attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1912; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Peoria, Ill.; during the First World War entered the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Ill., on May 15, 1917; commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to service overseas with the Three Hundred and Forty-first Infantry, Company C, Eighty-sixth Division; discharged with rank of captain on February 6, 1919; served as assistant State's attorney of Peoria County, Ill., in 1919 and 1920 and as State's attorney 1932-1936; president of the Illinois State's Attorneys' Association in 1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate for renomination in 1938; resumed the practice of law in Peoria, Ill., where he now resides.

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