William T. Schulte

William Theodore Schulte (August 19, 1890 – December 7, 1966) was an American politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1933 to 1943.

He moved with his parents to Hammond, Indiana, where he attended high school and received a business training.

Schulte was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1943).

In 1934 he sponsored a bill, the Alien Exclusion Act, which aimed, among other things, to prevent the employment of foreign nationals in border cities, [1] He was a coordinator of field operations in the labor division of the War Production Board, Washington, D.C. from 1942 to 1944.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress