Edgar R. Kiess Explained

Edgar R. Kiess
Image Name:EdgarRaymondKiess.jpg
State1:Pennsylvania
District1:16th
Term Start1:March 4, 1923
Term End1:July 20, 1930
Preceded1:Isaac Clinton Kline
Succeeded1:Robert F. Rich
State2:Pennsylvania
District2:15th
Term Start2:March 4, 1913
Term End2:March 3, 1923
Preceded2:William Bauchop Wilson
Succeeded2:Louis Thomas McFadden
Office3:Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Term3:1904–1910
Birth Date:26 August 1875
Birth Place:Warrensville, Pennsylvania, US
Death Place:Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, US
Party:Republican

Edgar Raymond Kiess (August 26, 1875 – July 20, 1930) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Kiess was born in Warrensville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Lycoming County Normal School in Muncy, Pennsylvania, in 1892. He taught in the public schools of Lycoming County for two years. He became engaged in the newspaper publishing business in Hughesville, Pennsylvania, in 1894. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1904 to 1910. He was engaged in business in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1910, and served as a trustee of Pennsylvania State College from 1912 to 1930.

Kiess was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served until his death at his summer home at Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania in 1930. He served as chairman of the House Committee on Insular Affairs, which had jurisdiction over United States territories such as Puerto Rico and the Philippines, during the Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses. Interment was at Wildwood Cemetery in Williamsport.

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