Editing Irvine Lenroot (section)

==Congressional service==
[[File:Irvine Luther Lenroot, half-length portrait, seated, facing front LCCN97511539 (cropped).jpg|left|thumb|Lenroot, {{Circa|1912}}]]
Lenroot was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] from the [[Wisconsin's 11th congressional district|11th congressional district]] to the [[United States House of Representatives]] of the [[61st United States Congress]] and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until April 17, 1918, when he resigned, having been elected Senator.<ref name="auto"/> He was elected as a Republican to the [[United States Senate]] on April 2, 1918, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of [[United States Senator]] [[Paul O. Husting]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2694&search_term=lenroot|title=Wisconsin History| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611105346/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2694&search_term=lenroot |archive-date=11 June 2011}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lenahan-leonad.html|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Lenagh to Leonad|author=Lawrence Kestenbaum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104023821/http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lenahan-leonad.html |archive-date=4 January 2011}}</ref> He was reelected in 1920 and served from April 18, 1918, to March 3, 1927.<ref name="auto"/> Lenroot was a close ally of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, and favored raising federal reserve rates in 1936.He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926.<ref name="auto"/> He was Chairman of the Committee on Railroads in the [[66th United States Congress]], Committee on Public Lands and Surveys in the [[68th United States Congress]] and the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds in the [[69th United States Congress]].<ref name="auto"/> He resumed the practice of law in [[Washington, D.C.]] from 1927 to 1929.<ref name="fjc.gov"/>