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Max Schwabe (December 6, 1905 – July 31, 1983) was a
U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...
from
Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
. He was the brother of
George Blaine Schwabe George Blaine Schwabe (July 26, 1886 – April 2, 1952) was an American politician and a Republican U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma. Biography Schwabe was born in Arthur in Vernon County son of George Washington Schwabe and Emily Ellen (Mose) ...
. Schwabe was born in
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and attended the
University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...
. Prior to his career in politics, he worked as an insurance agent and a farmer. Schwabe was elected as a
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to the Seventy-eighth and the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1949). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-first Congress in 1948. He also worked as the Missouri State director of the Farmers Home Administration in the United States Department of Agriculture from 1953 to 1961. Schwabe died on July 31, 1983, and was interred in Columbia Cemetery.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwabe, Max 1905 births 1983 deaths Burials at Columbia Cemetery (Columbia, Missouri) Politicians from Columbia, Missouri University of Missouri alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri 20th-century American politicians