Born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, February 13, 1898; attended the public schools, the
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, and
Cincinnati Law School; during the First World War served in the
United States Army as a private; was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, the same year; member of the Cincinnati City Council 1922–1926.
Congress He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929 – January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress. He resumed the practice of law; elected to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1949); from early 1940 until the
attack on Pearl Harbor, Hess was an interventionist and advocated helping the
United Kingdom in the second world war. Hess was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected to the Eighty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951 – January 3, 1961). Hess voted in favor of the
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and
1960. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1960; resumed the practice of law.
Death and burial He was a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, until his death there on July 14, 1986. His body was interred in
Spring Grove Cemetery. == References ==