Guy T. Helvering

Guy Tresillian Helvering (January 10, 1878 – July 4, 1946) was an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Kansas, and later served as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and as a federal district court judge.

Born in Felicity, Ohio, Helvering moved to Kansas in 1887 with his parents. The family settled in Beattie, Marshall County, where Helvering attended the public schools. During the Spanish–American War, he enlisted as a corporal in Company M, Twenty-second Regiment, Kansas Infantry, and served from May 12 to November 3, 1898.

After the war, Helvering attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence, and later graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1906. While attending law school, he played as a reserve on the 1905 Michigan Wolverines football team. He was admitted to the bar in the same year and commenced practice in Marysville, Kansas.

Helvering served as prosecuting attorney of Marshall County 1907–1911. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress.

Helvering was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1919). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

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