Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz Captain, United States Army Member of Congress |
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of the U.S. House of Representatives:
Representative from Michigan; born in Budapest,
June 14, 1890; immigrated to the United States in 1892 with his parents,
who settled in Adrian, Pennsylvania; attended the parochial schools in
that city, St. Cyril and Methodius Seminary, Orchard Lake, Michigan, St.
Bonaventure’s College, Allegany, New York, and St. Ignatius College, Chicago,
Illinois; was graduated in medicine from Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois,
in 1912; practiced medicine in Chicago, Illinois, 912-1923; during the
First World War served from September 10, 1917; as a First Lieutenant in
the Medical Corps of the United States Army until his discharge on December
26, 1918; Captain in the Medical Reserve Corps 1919-1934; postgraduate
course in surgery at Illinois Post Graduate School at Chicago, Illinois,
moved to Hamtramck, Wayne County, Michigan, in 1923 and continued the practice
of medicine; mayor of Hamtramck 1928-1932 and 1936-1938; member of the
Wayne County Board of Supervisors for seven years; elected as a Democrat
to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1939-January
3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942 and for election
as a Republican in 1948, 1950, 1952, and 1954; resumed practice in Hamtramck,
Michigan; died in Hamtramck, Mich., August 31, 1963; interment in Arlington
National Cemetery.
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