Milton Andrew Romjue (December 5, 1874 - January
23, 1968) was a
U.S. Representative from
Missouri
.
Born in
Love Lake, Missouri,
Romjue attended the public schools and the Kirksville State Normal
School.
He
was graduated from the law department of the University of
Missouri
in 1904.He was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Macon, Missouri
.City attorney of Higbee, Missouri
, in 1904 and 1905.He served as judge of the
Macon County probate court 1907-1915.He served as delegate to the
Democratic State conventions 1920-1940.He served as delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1928.
Romjue was elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-fifth
and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1921).He was an
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh
Congress.
Romjue was elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the nine succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1943).He served as chairman of
the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Seventy-sixth and
Seventy-seventh Congresses).He was an unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress.He resumed the
practice of law and also engaged in farming and stock
raising.
He
died in Macon,
Missouri
, January 23,
1968.He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.
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