district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party preceded term birth_date spouse image article_title state name
4th ed derwinski 10 august 1958 washington , d.c. clinton county , ohio republican james v. buckley january 3 , 1951 -- august 10 , 1958 13 december 1885 elizabeth king mcvey , katharine johnson mcvey william e. mcvey.png william e. mcvey
 illinois william e. mcvey
william e. mcvey

: : -lrb- for the sculptor william mozart mcvey see william mcvey -lrb- sculptor -rrb- -rrb- william estus mcvey , -lrb- born on a farm near lee 's creek , clinton county , ohio , december 13 , 1885 and died in washington d.c. august 10 , 1958 -rrb- was a republican member of the u.s. house of representatives representing illinois ' 4th congressional district from 1951 until his death .
he attended public schools ; graduated from ohio university where he was a member of phi kappa tau fraternity in 1916 and from the university of chicago in 1919 .
he was division superintendent in the bureau of education , philippine islands , 1908 -- 1914 ; director of extension , ohio university , 1916 -- 1919 ; superintendent of thornton township high school and junior college , harvey , ill. , 1919 -- 1947 ; president of north central association of colleges and schools in 1943 and 1944 ; professor of education at de paul university 1948-1950 ; author ; elected assessor of thornton township in 1949 ; elected as a republican to the eighty-second and to the three succeeding congresses until his death in 1958 .
he had been renominated to the eighty-sixth congress but died before the 1958 elections .
he is buried in linwood cemetery , galesburg , illinois .
his first wife , elizabeth king mcvey , died of appendicitis on december 30 , 1923 in harvey , illinois at age 38 .
he was later married to katharine johnson and was a member of the episcopal church , phi beta kappa , phi delta kappa and phi kappa tau .
