Elmer H. Wene
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Wene in 1937
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 2nd district |
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In office January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1939 |
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| Preceded by | Isaac Bacharach |
| Succeeded by | Walter S. Jeffries |
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In office January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1945 |
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| Preceded by | Walter S. Jeffries |
| Succeeded by | T. Millet Hand |
| Member of the New Jersey Senate | |
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In office 1946 |
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| Born | May 1, 1892 Pittstown, New Jersey |
| Died | January 25, 1957 (aged 64) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Parents | Emanuel S. Wene Mary J. Kiley |
| Profession | Politician |
Elmer H. Wene (May 1, 1892 – January 25, 1957) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1941 to 1945. He twice ran unsuccessfully for the New Jersey governorship.
He was born on a farm near Pittstown, New Jersey on May 1, 1892 to Emanuel S. Wene and Mary J. Kiley. He attended the public schools and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1918, he engaged in agricultural pursuits near Vineland, New Jersey.
Wene served on the New Jersey State board of agriculture 1925-1934 and was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1939). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress. After leaving Congress, he was a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Cumberland County, New Jersey 1939-1941. He was again elected to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1945) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1944. Wene was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate the same year.
Wene resumed agricultural pursuits and poultry raising. He was also president and owner of two radio stations in New Jersey. In 1945, he served as an adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. He was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1946 and a delegate to the New Jersey State constitutional convention in 1947 that drafted the current New Jersey State Constitution. On June 26, 1948, he was given a recess appointment by President Harry S. Truman as Undersecretary of Agriculture. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1949 and an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress as well. Wene was unsuccessful for the gubernatorial nomination in 1953.
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