Peter V. Deuster

Peter V. Deuster

Infobox Congressman
honorific-prefix =
name = Peter Victor Deuster
honorific-suffix =


state = Wisconsin
district = 4th
term_start = March 4, 1879
term_end = March 3, 1885
preceded = William P. Lynde
succeeded = Isaac W. Van Schaick
birth_date = February 13, 1831
birth_place = Aix la Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia
death_date = December 31, 1904
death_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin
nationality = Prussian
party = Democrat
alma_mater =
occupation = Newspaperman
Peter Victor Deuster (February 13, 1831 - December 31, 1904) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.

Born near Aix la Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia, Deuster pursued an academic course. Immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled on a farm near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in May 1847.He worked in a printing office.He moved to Port Washington, Wisconsin, in 1854 and edited a newspaper.He also served simultaneously as postmaster, clerk of the circuit court, clerk of the land office, and notary public.He returned to Milwaukee in 1856 and edited the Milwaukee See-Bote, a Democratic daily paper, until 1860, when he became proprietor.He served as member of the State assembly in 1863.He served in the State senate in 1870 and 1871.

Deuster was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1885).He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Forty-sixth Congress).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress.He resumed newspaper interests.He was appointed chairman of a commission to diminish the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon in 1887.He was appointed consul at Crefeld, Germany, February 19, 1896, and served until a successor was appointed October 15, 1897.He died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 31, 1904.He was interred in Calvary Cemetery.

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