Edgar Allan Jonas (October 14, 1885 – November 14, 1965) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Jonas attended the public schools and graduated from the Manitowoc County Normal School. He taught in the rural schools of Manitowoc County 1903–1907. He was graduated from the

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in June 1910. He was

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in 1909 and commenced the practice of law in

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

. He served as assistant corporation counsel of

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, in 1919 and 1920. First assistant State's attorney of

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from 1921 to 1923. He served as a judge of the

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1923–1937. He served as a judge of the

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in 1941 and 1942. He served as an associate member of Board of Pardons and Paroles of Illinois 1945–1947. He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1948. In 1921, Jonas had run successfully as a Republican nominee for the

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. Jonas was elected as a

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to the Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-third Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1955). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress and for election in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress. He resumed the practice of law and was a resident of

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. He died in

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, November 14, 1965. He was interred in

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in Chicago.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jonas, Edgar Allan 1885 births 1965 deaths Burials at Rosehill Cemetery Illinois state court judges People from Mishicot, Wisconsin Politicians from Chicago University of Chicago Law School alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois 20th-century American judges Judges of the Superior Court of Cook County 20th-century American politicians