Henry S. Reuss

A Representative from Wisconsin. Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis. , February 22, 1912. A. B. , Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. , 1933. L. L. B. , Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. , 1936. Lawyer, private practice. Business executive. Assistant corporation counsel for Milwaukee County, Wis. , 1939-1940. Counsel for United States Office of Price Administration, 1941-1942. United States Army, 1943-1945, participated in the Normandy invasion. Chief of price control, Office of Military Government for Germany, 1945. Deputy general counsel, the Marshall Plan, Paris, France, 1949. Special prosecutor, grand jury, Milwaukee County, Wis. , 1950. Member of school board, Milwaukee, Wis. , 1953-1954. Member of legal advisory committee, United States National Resources Board, 1948-1952. Unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Milwaukee, Wis. , in 1960. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1983). Chair, Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing (Ninety-fourth Congress). Chair, Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses). Chair, Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-seventh Congress). Was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982. Died on January 12, 2002, in San Rafael, Calif. Cremated.