What was the position of Adolph J. Sabath from 1906 to Mar 1907?
Adolph J . Sabath Adolph Joachim Sabath ( April 4 , 1866 – November 6 , 1952 ) was a Czech-born American politician . He served as a member of the U.S . House of Representatives from Chicago , Illinois , from 1907 until his death in Bethesda , Maryland on November 6 , 1952 . Life and career . Born in Záboří , Austrian Empire ( now Czech Republic ) into a Jewish family , he immigrated to America at age 15 , became active in real estate , and received his LL.B . degree in 1891 from the Chicago College of Law ( now Chicago-Kent College of Law ) . He served in local offices including justice of the peace ( 1895-1897 ) and police magistrate ( 1897-1906 ) until election to Congress from the Jewish West Side in 1907 . He was active in state and national Democratic party affairs , attending many conventions . In 1911 , he received much positive attention in the Czech community in Chicago for his fundraising efforts in the search for Elsie Paroubek , and paid for the childs funeral when her body was discovered . He was a leading opponent of prohibition in the 1920s . He denounced the prohibition factions , the Anti-Saloon League and their allied forces and co-workers , the Ku Klux Klan fanatics . Every year from 1925 to 1933 , he consistently submitted bills in the House of Representatives , to amend the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act to allow commerce in beer and wine . In 1929 , he came to the defense of his large immigrant constituency by countering claims that they were responsible for the surge in criminal activity during the 1920s . The bootlegging and gang killings...are not the by-product but the direct product of the Volstead Act , and the supporters of this crime breeding legislation must claim the new cult of American criminals entirely as their own . As a leading Democrat he chaired the powerful House Rules Committee after 1937 . He was an ineffective chairman , with a small weak staff , who proved unable to lead his committee , was frequently at odds with the House leadership , and was inclined to write the President little letters informing on House Speakers William B . Bankhead and Sam Rayburn . Beginning on April 1 , 1934 , he was the Dean ( longest-serving member ) of the House and he served as Dean for 18 years , 7 months , and 5 days : the longest time any person had served as Dean until John Dingell passed him on August 8 , 2013 . Sabath was an avid New Dealer and an interventionist who strongly supported war against Nazi Germany . It was Sabath who nominated a teenage ( later Admiral ) Hyman G . Rickover to the United States Naval Academy . He died of liver disease on November 6 , 1952 and was buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park , Illinois , near Chicago .