Raymond Joseph Cannon

U.S. Congressman. Educated as a teacher, he taught school at Minocqua, Wisconsin and played semi-professional baseball as a pitcher, (1908-22). He attended the law department of Marquette University, was admitted to the bar and commenced to practice law in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was elected as a Wisconsin Appeals Court Judge and also served as legal advisor to the Major League Baseball Players Association. In 1933, he was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses, serving until 1939. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection