Stephen A. Day
Stephen Albion Day (July 13, 1882 - January 5, 1950) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Canton, Ohio, Day attended the public schools at Canton, the University School at Cleveland, Ohio, and Asheville (North Carolina) School. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905, and subsequently served as secretary to Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1905-1907.
He studied law at the University of Michigan Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio. He moved to Evanston, Illinois, in 1908 and continued the practice of law in Chicago, Illinois. He served as special counsel to the Comptroller of the Currency from 1926-1928.
Day was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1945). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Evanston, Illinois, where he died January 5, 1950. He was interred in Memorial Park, Skokie, Illinois.
Congressman Day had strong nationalist views and was closely associated with Charles W. Phillips, William Dudley Pelley, and Gerald L.K. Smith.[1] Congressman Day’s book We Must Save the Republic was published by Flanders Hall. Flanders Hall was registered in the US as a foreign agent publishing concern for National Socialist Germany.
Works
- The Constitutionalist (1936)
- We Must Save the Republic: A Brief for the Delcaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States Flanders Hall, (1941) 118 pages
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