sentences:  He served as delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1932, 1934, and 1940.Eltse was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.