William Theodore Schulte (August 19, 1890 - December 7, 1966) was a U.S. Representative

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 from Indiana

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Born in St. Bernard Township, Platte County, Nebraska

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, Schulte attended the public schools of St. Bernard Township, Nebraska.
He moved with his parents to Hammond, Indiana

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, where he attended high school and received a business training.
He engaged in the theatrical business until 1918.
He was also interested in agricultural pursuits.
He served as member of the city council of Hammond, Indiana

Hammond, Indiana

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 from 1918 to 1922.
He resumed the theatrical business until 1932.

Schulte was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Seventy-third

73rd United States Congress

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 and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1943).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth

78th United States Congress

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 Congress. He was a coordinator of field operations in the labor division of the War Production Board

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, Washington, D.C.

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 from 1942 to 1944.
He returned to Lake County, Indiana

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, and engaged in agricultural pursuits, engaged in the automobile business at Michigan City, Indiana

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, from October 1947 to March 1949.
Sales representative of a construction machinery firm.
He died in Hammond, Indiana

Hammond, Indiana

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, on December 7, 1966.
He was interred in St. Andrew's Cemetery.

In 1934 he sponsored a bill, the Alien Exclusion Act, which aimed, among other things, to prevent the employment of foreign nationals in border cities, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090304.weArchive05/BNStory/specialComment/home

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