Rudolph G. Tenerowicz
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Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz (June 14, 1890 - August 31, 1963) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Tenerowicz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His parents, John (a Polish diplomat in Hungary) and Antoinette (Gall) Tenerowicz, immigrated with their family to the United States in 1892 with and settled in Adrian, Pennsylvania. He attended the parochial schools in Adrian, St. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan; St. Bonaventure’s College in Allegany, New York; and St. Ignatius College in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated in medicine from Loyola University Chicago in 1912 and practiced medicine in Chicago from 1912 to 1923.
During World War I, Tenerowicz served from September 10, 1917 as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States Army until his discharge on December 26, 1918. He was captain in the Medical Reserve Corps from 1919 to 1934. He received a postgraduate course in surgery at Illinois Post Graduate School at Chicago. He moved to Hamtramck, Michigan in 1923 and continued the practice of medicine.
Tenerowicz served as mayor of Hamtramck from 1928 to 1932. In 1931 Tenerowicz and twelve others, including two named Jacob Kaplan and Isaac Levey, were indicted for bribery. He was tried and convicted on vice conspiracy charges and freed from prison when pardoned by Democratic Governor William A. Comstock. Despite the conviction, Tenerowicz returned to serve as mayor from 1936 to 1938. He was member of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors for seven years. In 1938, he was elected, without challenge, as a Democrat from Michigan's 1st congressional district to the [[76th United States Congress|Seventy-sixth Congress] and reelected in 1938 to the Seventy-seventh, serving from January 3, 1939 to January 3, 1943. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination in 1942 and for election as a Republican in 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, and 1954.
Rudolph G. Tenerowicz resumed practice in Hamtramck, Michigan where he died in 1963. He was interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
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| Preceded by George G. Sadowski |
United States Representative for the 1st Congressional District of Michigan 1939– 1943 |
Succeeded by George G. Sadowski |
