Rudolph G. Tenerowicz

Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz (14 June 1890 to 31 August 1963) was an American physician and politician from Michigan. He was born in Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his family emigrated to the United States in 1892 and settled in Pennsylvania. He graduated in medicine from the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery in 1912 and practised medicine in Chicago until 1923, taking a postgraduate course in surgery at the Illinois Post Graduate School. During the First World War he served as a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps and afterwards held a commission as captain in the Medical Reserve Corps. In 1923 he moved to Hamtramck, Michigan, and continued his medical practice there. He served as mayor of Hamtramck from 1928 to 1932 and again from 1936 to 1938, and was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives, where he served two terms from 1939 to 1943.