Educated in Chicago Public Schools and America Institute of Banking . . . Associated with Chicago banks for many years; also engaged in business management . . . Student of Economics and Finance . . . Appointed by Governor Emmerson as member of DuPage County Committee of the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission in 1932, served without pay . . . During World War II and for eighteen months after, served in Signal Corps as a Senior Civilian member of a Renegotiation panel on War contracts with offices in Chicago and Washington . . . For fourteen years, a member of finance committee and a Trustee of North Central College of Naperville . . . Elected Commissioner, Naperville, 1947; elected Mayor, 1951 and re-elected in 1955 . . . Member of Executive Committee of League since 1951.