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  Sosnowski, John B.
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NameJohn B. Sosnowski
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Detroit, Michigan , United States
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Born December 08, 1883
Died July 16, 1968 (85 years)
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InfoSOSNOWSKI, John Bartholomew, a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit, Mich., December 8, 1883; attended the parochial and Army schools; during the Spanish-American War enlisted as a private in the Seventh Regiment, United States Cavalry, and served in Cuba and the Philippine Islands; after the close of the war continued in the service and was on detached duty at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.; was honorably discharged on December 26, 1906; returned to Detroit, Mich., and engaged in the real estate and brokerage business; captain and adjutant in the Thirty-first Regiment, Infantry, National Guard of Michigan, from 1909 to 1916, with service on the Mexican border in 1916; member and chairman of the board of water commissioners of the city of Detroit 1918-1924; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926; resumed the real estate and brokerage business in Detroit, Mich.; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress, in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress, and in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; hearing examiner, Michigan Liquor Control Commission, 1947-1951; died in Detroit, Mich., July 16, 1968; interment in Sweetest Heart of Mary Cemetery.


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  08/05/1952 MI District 16- R Primary Lost 14.83% (-12.00%)
  11/05/1946 MI District 1 Lost 33.43% (-32.48%)
  06/18/1946 MI District 1 - R Primary Won 35.99% (+12.06%)
  11/07/1944 MI District 1 Lost 19.05% (-61.52%)
  07/11/1944 MI District 1 - R Primary Won 43.86% (+10.38%)
  11/03/1942 MI District 1 Lost 21.97% (-56.06%)
  09/13/1938 MI District 1 - R Primary Lost 32.87% (-9.79%)
  09/15/1936 MI District 1 - R Primary Lost 23.42% (-5.79%)
  09/11/1934 MI District 1 - R Primary Lost 27.71% (-13.56%)
  09/13/1932 MI District 1 - R Primary Lost 24.54% (-11.52%)
  09/09/1930 MI District 1 - R Primary Lost 28.26% (-38.13%)
  09/14/1926 MI District 1 - R Primary Lost 36.55% (-8.16%)
  11/04/1924 MI District 1 Won 67.51% (+35.31%)
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