Obituaries From Representatives and Senators (And Delegates) Whose First Service Was In The 69th Congress
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I know that some may complain about this post. But is IS obituaries.
Further, I am placing them in batches so that there is a minimum of
disruption.
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ADKINS, Charles, (1863 - 1941)
ADKINS, Charles, a Representative from Illinois; born on a farm in Pickaway
County, Ohio, near Mount Sterling, February 7, 1863; attended the common
schools; taught school for several years; moved to Illinois in 1885 and
settled on a farm in Piatt County near Bement; engaged in agricultural
pursuits; president of the Piatt County (Ill.) Farmers' Institute; member of
the board of education of Bement, Ill., 1900-1920; member of the board of
supervisors of Piatt County 1902-1906; member of the State house of
representatives 1907-1913, serving as speaker 1911-1913; president of the
Illinois Livestock Breeders' Association in 1914 and 1915; appointed State
director of agriculture during the administration of Gov. Frank M. Lowden
and served from 1916 to 1920; moved to Decatur, Macon County, Ill., in 1918;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; resided in Decatur, Ill.,
until his death there on March 31, 1941; interment in Bement Cemetery,
Bement, Ill.
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ALLEN, John Clayton, (1860 - 1939)
ALLEN, John Clayton, a Representative from Illinois; born in Hinesburg,
Chittenden County, Vt., February 14, 1860; attended the common schools and
Beeman Academy, New Haven, Vt.; moved to Lincoln, Nebr., in 1881, and to
McCook, Redwillow County, Nebr., in 1886 and engaged in mercantile pursuits
at both places; member of the McCook City Council 1887-1889; mayor of
McCook, Nebr., in 1890; secretary of state of Nebraska 1891-1895; moved to
Monmouth, Warren County, Ill., in 1896 and became president of the John C.
Allen Co. department store and of the People's National Bank of Monmouth;
member of the State normal school board 1917-1927; elected as a Republican
to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the
Seventy-third Congress and for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth
Congress; resumed his former business pursuits in Monmouth, Ill., until his
death there on January 12, 1939; interment in Vermont Cemetery, Vermont,
Ill.
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ANDRESEN, August Herman, (1890 - 1958)
ANDRESEN, August Herman, a Representative from Minnesota; born in Newark,
Kendall County, Ill., October 11, 1890; attended the public schools; moved
with his parents to Grand Forks, N.Dak., in 1900, to Eagle Grove, Iowa, in
1902, and to Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn., in 1905, attending the local
schools in each place; was graduated from Red Wing (Minn.) Seminary, and
from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., in 1912; special investigator for
the Minnesota Department of Weights and Measures 1912-1915; was graduated
from the St. Paul (Minn.) College of Law; was admitted to the bar in 1914
and commenced practice in Red Wing in 1915; member of the Minnesota Home
Guards in 1918 and 1919; interested in financial and business enterprises
and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3,
1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third
Congress; elected to the Seventy-fourth and to the eleven succeeding
Congresses, and served from January 3, 1935, until his death in Bethesda,
Md., January 14, 1958; chairman, Select Committee on Commodity Exchanges
(Eightieth Congress); interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Red Wing, Minn.
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APPLEBY, Stewart Hoffman, (1890 - 1964)
APPLEBY, Stewart Hoffman, (son of Theodore Frank Appleby), a Representative
from New Jersey; born in Asbury Park, Monmouth County, N.J., May 17, 1890;
attended the public schools of Asbury Park, and Mercersburg Academy; was
graduated from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1913; engaged in
the real estate and insurance business; organized and served as vice
president of the First National Bank of Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J.; during the
First World War enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on May 17, 1917,
and served until May 17, 1921; commissioned a captain in the United States
Marine Corps Reserve on November 24, 1925; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father,
Representative-elect T. Frank Appleby, and served from November 3, 1925, to
March 3, 1927; was not a candidate for renomination in 1926; during the
Second World War served in the United States Coast Guard, being discharged
in September 1945 as a coxswain; retired to Hallandale, Fla.; died in Miami,
Fla., January 12, 1964; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer,
Va.
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ARENTZ, Samuel Shaw (Ulysses), (1879 - 1934)
ARENTZ, Samuel Shaw (Ulysses), a Representative from Nevada; born in
Chicago, Ill., January 8, 1879; attended the public and high schools; was
graduated from the Chicago Manual Training School in 1897 and from the South
Dakota School of Mines at Rapid City in 1904; member of the South Dakota
National Guard at Rapid City 1901-1904; moved to Ludering, Lyon County,
Nev., in 1907, and to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1912, and was engaged as
surveyor, assessor, miner, and timberman in Bear Gulch and Butte, Mont.,
Bingham Canyon and Stockton, Utah, and the Lake Superior copper country;
mining engineer and superintendent of mines in Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and
Nevada; chief engineer of railway companies in Nevada; consulting engineer
of the United States Bureau of Mines; captain of Engineers, United States
Army, during the First World War; moved to a ranch in Lyon County, Nev.,
near Simpson, in 1917; also engaged in mining and irrigation projects;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March
3, 1923); was not a candidate for renomination but was an unsuccessful
candidate in the 1922 primary election for the Republican nomination for
United States Senator; elected to the Sixty-ninth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; delegate to the
Republican National Conventions in 1928 and 1932; again engaged as a rancher
near Simpson; also resumed mining activities in Nevada and Utah; died in
Reno, Nev., where he had gone to receive medical treatment, on June 17,
1934; interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Nev.
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AUF DER HEIDE, Oscar Louis, (1874 - 1945)
AUF DER HEIDE, Oscar Louis, a Representative from New Jersey; born in New
York City, December 8, 1874; attended the public schools; moved with his
parents to West New York, Hudson County, N.J., in 1887; engaged in the real
estate business; member of the town council 1899-1902; member and president
of the board of education in 1903 and 1904; member of the State house of
assembly 1908-1911; served on the board of assessors of West New York in
1912 and 1913; mayor of West New York 1914-1917; elected a member and
subsequently a director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County
and served from 1915 to 1924; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and
to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1935); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; resumed
the real estate and insurance business; died in West New York, N.J., March
29, 1945; interment in Hoboken Cemetery, North Bergen, N.J.
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BACHMANN, Carl George, (1890 - 1980)
BACHMANN, Carl George, a Representative from West Virginia; born in
Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va., May 14, 1890; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Linsly Institute, Wheeling, W.Va., in 1908; attended
Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., for two years; was
graduated from West Virginia University at Morgantown in 1913 and from its
law department in 1915; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced
practice in Wheeling; appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Ohio
County in January 1917; was subsequently elected prosecuting attorney in
January 1921 and served until January 1925; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3,
1933); minority whip (Seventy-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and for election in 1934 to
the Seventy-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Wheeling, W.Va.,
served on the city council of Wheeling, W.Va., 1939-1941; member of the West
Virginia State liquor control commission 1941-1944; executive director of
civilian defense for State of West Virginia, 1942-1944; elected mayor of
Wheeling in 1947 for the term ending June 30, 1951; engaged in banking and
the practice of law; was a resident of Wheeling, W.Va., where he died
January 22, 1980; interment Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling W.Va.
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BAILEY, Ralph Emerson, (1878 - 1948)
BAILEY, Ralph Emerson, a Representative from Missouri; born in Cainsville,
Harrison County, Mo., July 14, 1878; moved to Illinois with his parents, who
settled in Benton, Franklin County, in 1880; attended the graded and high
schools at Benton; moved to Bloomfield, Stoddard County, Mo., in 1897; was
graduated from the Southeast Missouri Teachers' College at Cape Girardeau in
1901; afterwards took a special course in the University of Missouri at
Columbia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced
practice in Bloomfield, Mo.; moved to Sikeston, Scott County, Mo., in 1910
and continued the practice of law; city attorney 1912-1914 and again
1918-1922; served as a member of the board of regents of the Southeast
Missouri Teachers' College; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth
Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Sikeston,
Mo.; died in Cape Girardeau, Mo., April 8, 1948; interment in the City
Cemetery, Sikeston, Mo.
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BLEASE, Coleman Livingston, (1868 - 1942)
BLEASE, Coleman Livingston, a Senator from South Carolina; born near
Newberry, Newberry County, S.C., October 8, 1868; attended the common
schools; graduated from the law department of Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C., in 1889; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Newberry, S.C.; member, State house of representatives
1890-1894, 1899, and 1900, serving as speaker pro tempore 1892-1894; mayor
of Helena, S.C., in 1897; city attorney of Newberry in 1901 and 1902;
member, State senate 1905-1909, serving as president pro tempore in 1906 and
1907; mayor of Newberry in 1910; Governor of South Carolina 1911-1915;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4,
1925, to March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930;
unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1934
and 1938; elected a member of the State unemployment compensation commission
for a four-year term beginning in 1941; died in Columbia, S.C., January 19,
1942; interment in Rosemont Cemetery, Newberry, S.C.
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BOWLES, Henry Leland, (1866 - 1932)
BOWLES, Henry Leland, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Athens,
Windham County, Vt., January 6, 1866; attended the district schools at
Kendricks Corner and Vermont Academy at Saxtons River, Vt.; at the age of
eighteen moved to Osage, Iowa, and engaged in agricultural pursuits; later
moved to California, where for four years he worked as lumberjack, rancher,
and farmer; returned east and settled in Massachusetts, working in Waltham,
Salem, and Lynn at various businesses; trustee of the Vermont Academy; moved
to Springfield, Mass., in 1898 and operated a chain of restaurants; member
of the Governor's council in 1913, 1918, and 1919; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1920 and in 1924; elected as a Republican
to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
George B. Churchill; reelected to the Seventieth Congress and served from
September 29, 1925, to March 3, 1929; was not a candidate for renomination
in 1928; resumed his former business pursuits; died in Springfield, Mass.,
May 17, 1932; the remains were cremated and the ashes interred in
Springfield Cemetery.
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BOWMAN, Frank Llewellyn, (1879 - 1936)
BOWMAN, Frank Llewellyn, a Representative from West Virginia; born in
Masontown, Fayette County, Pa., January 21, 1879; attended the public
schools; moved with his parents to Morgantown, W.Va.; was graduated from the
University of West Virginia at Morgantown in 1902; teller in a bank at
Morgantown from 1902 until 1904, when he resigned to take up the study of
law; was admitted to the bar in 1905 and commenced practice in Morgantown,
W.Va.; was also interested in coal mining; appointed postmaster of
Morgantown May 25, 1911, and served until April 14, 1915, when a successor
was appointed; city mayor in 1916 and 1917; declined renomination for mayor;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; organized a coal company
in Washington, D.C., and served as president until appointed a member of the
Board of Veterans Appeals of the Veterans' Administration in 1935 and served
until his death in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 1936; interment in Oak
Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, W.Va.
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BRATTON, Sam Gilbert, (1888 - 1963)
BRATTON, Sam Gilbert, a Senator from New Mexico; born in Kosse, Limestone
County, Tex., August 19, 1888; attended the public schools; graduated from
State Normal School and taught school for several years at Claude and
Hereford, Tex.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced
practice in Farwell, Parmer County, Tex.; moved to Clovis, N.Mex., in 1915
and continued the practice of law; judge of the district court for the fifth
judicial district of New Mexico 1919-1921, when, this district being
divided, he became judge of the ninth judicial district 1921-1923; associate
justice of the supreme court of New Mexico 1923-1924, when he resigned to
accept the nomination for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1924; reelected in 1930 and served from March 4, 1925,
until his resignation, effective June 24, 1933; chairman, Committee on
Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-third Congress); resigned to accept an
appointment as circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals
for the Tenth Judicial Circuit 1933-1961; died in Albuquerque, N.Mex.,
September 22, 1963; interment in Fairview Park Cemetery.
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BRIGHAM, Elbert Sidney, (1877 - 1962)
BRIGHAM, Elbert Sidney, a Representative from Vermont; born in St. Albans,
Franklin County, Vt., October 19, 1877; attended the graded schools; was
graduated from St. Albans High School in 1898 and from Middlebury (Vt.)
College in 1903; engaged in agricultural pursuits and the breeding of dairy
cattle; auditor for the town of St. Albans in 1911 and 1912; State
commissioner of agriculture 1913-1924; member of the National Agricultural
Advisory Committee and of the United States Food Administration, Washington,
D.C., in 1918; trustee of Middlebury College 1922-1960; director, National
Life Insurance Co., in 1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth,
Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1930; member of Reconstruction Finance
Corporation in 1932; chairman of Vermont Advisory Banking Board, 1933-1936;
president, National Life Insurance Co., Montpelier, Vt., 1937-1948;
president, Franklin County Savings Bank & Trust Co., St. Albans, Vt.,
1944-1957 and chairman of the board 1957-1962; died in St. Albans City, Vt.,
July 5, 1962; interment in St. Albans Bay Cemetery, St. Albans Town, Vt.
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CARPENTER, Edmund Nelson, (1865 - 1952)
CARPENTER, Edmund Nelson, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 27, 1865; attended the public schools in
Wilkes-Barre and the Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa.; interested in mining
and the manufacture of sheet-metal products; enlisted as a private in 1893
and attained the rank of major in the Pennsylvania National Guard; during
the Spanish-American War served as first lieutenant and quartermaster in the
Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, from April 27, 1898, to
October 29, 1898; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to the
Sixty-sixth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress
(March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926
to the Seventieth Congress; resumed his manufacturing interests; died in
Philadelphia, Pa., November 4, 1952; interment in Hollenback Cemetery,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
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CARSS, William Leighton, (1865 - 1931)
CARSS, William Leighton, a Representative from Minnesota; born in Pella,
Marion County, Iowa, February 15, 1865; moved with his parents to Des
Moines, Iowa, in 1867; attended the public schools; studied civil and
mechanical engineering and followed that profession for a number of years;
moved to St. Louis County, Minn., in 1893 and settled in Proctor; engaged as
a locomotive engineer; elected as a Union Labor candidate to the Sixty-sixth
Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection as a Democrat in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress and for
election in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; elected on the
Farmer-Laborite ticket to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses (March
4, 1925-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the
Seventy-first Congress and for election in 1930 to the Seventy-second
Congress; moved to Duluth, Minn., in 1929; resumed his position as
locomotive engineer at Proctor, Minn.; died in Duluth, Minn., May 31, 1931;
interment in Oneota Cemetery.
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CARTER, Albert Edward, (1881 - 1964)
CARTER, Albert Edward, a Representative from California; born in Lemoncove,
near Visalia, Tulare County, Calif., July 5, 1881; attended the public
schools; was graduated from San Jose State Normal School in 1903; taught
school six years; was graduated from the law department of the University of
California at Berkeley in 1913; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Oakland, Calif.; representative of the United States
War Department Commission on Training Camps 1917-1919; attorney for the
California State Board of Pharmacy in 1920 and 1921; commissioner of public
works of Oakland 1921-1925 and in 1923 initiated the plan for a
comprehensive development of the harbor on the east side of San Francisco
Bay; president of the Pacific Coast Association of Port Authorities; elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the nine succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1925-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in
California and Washington, D.C.; died in Oakland, Calif., August 8, 1964;
interment in Home of Peace Cemetery, Porterville, Calif.
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CHALMERS, William Wallace, (1861 - 1944)
CHALMERS, William Wallace, a Representative from Ohio; born in Strathroy,
Ontario, Canada, November 1, 1861; moved with his parents to Kent County,
near Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1865; attended the public schools, and Michigan
State Normal School; was graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann
Harbor in 1887, from Eureka (Ill.) College in 1889, and from Heidelberg
University, Tiffin, Ohio, in 1904; teacher and principal of schools until
1890; superintendent of schools in Grand Rapids, Mich., 1890-1898 and in
Toledo, Ohio, 1898-1905; president of Toledo University in 1904; engaged at
different periods in farming, lumbering and, in the real-estate and
insurance business at Toledo, Ohio; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; elected to the
Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses (March 4, 1925-March
3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930; died in
Indianapolis, Ind., on October 1, 1944; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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CHAPMAN, Virgil Munday, (1895 - 1951)
CHAPMAN, Virgil Munday, a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born
in Middleton, Simpson County, Ky., on March 15, 1895; attended the public
schools of Franklin, Ky.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1917;
graduated from the law department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington
in 1918 and commenced practice at Irvine, Estill County, Ky., in 1918; city
attorney of Irvine 1918-1920; moved to Paris, Ky., in 1920 and continued the
practice of law; assisted in organizing the tobacco growers of Kentucky and
nearby States into cooperative marketing associations 1921-1923; elected as
a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1925-March
3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928; elected as a
Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1931-January 3, 1949); elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate
in 1948 and served from January 3, 1949, until his death in the naval
hospital at Bethesda, Md. following an automobile accident, March 8, 1951;
interment in Paris Cemetery, Paris, Ky.
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CHURCHILL, George Bosworth, (1866 - 1925)
CHURCHILL, George Bosworth, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in
Worcester, Mass., October 24, 1866; attended the grammar and high schools,
and was graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1889; taught in the
Worcester High School until 1892; moved to Philadelphia and taught in the
William Penn Charter School, and at the same time took a postgraduate course
at the University of Pennsylvania 1892-1894; went to Europe and studied in
the University of Strassburg, Germany, in 1894 and 1895, and then attended
the University of Berlin, Germany, 1895-1897; returned to the United States
and became assistant editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1897 and 1898;
member of the faculty of Amherst College 1898-1925; moderator of Amherst
1905-1925; member of the State senate 1917-1919; delegate to the State
constitutional conventions in 1917 and 1919; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in
Amherst, Mass., July 1, 1925; interment in Wildwood Cemetery.
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COCHRAN, John Joseph, (1880 - 1947)
COCHRAN, John Joseph, a Representative from Missouri; born in Webster
Groves, St. Louis County, Mo., August 11, 1880; attended the public schools;
employed in the editorial department of various St. Louis newspapers for
several years; assistant to the election commissioners of St. Louis
1911-1913; secretary to Representative William L. Igoe 1913-1917, 1918-1921;
private secretary to United States Senator William J. Stone and clerk to the
Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate in 1917 and 1918;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1921 at St. Louis, Mo., but did not
engage in extensive practice; secretary to Representative Harry B. Hawes
1921-1926; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Harry B. Hawes and at the same time was
elected to the Seventieth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-first,
Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses; did not seek renomination in
1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for
United States Senator; subsequently was nominated by convention and elected
to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fifth and to the
four succeeding Congresses; served from November 2, 1926, to January 3,
1947; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments
(Seventy-second through Seventy-sixth Congresses), Committee on Accounts
(Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; died in St. Louis, Mo.,
March 6, 1947; interment in Calvary Cemetery.
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COX, Edward Eugene, (1880 - 1952)
COX, Edward Eugene, a Representative from Georgia; born near Camilla,
Mitchell County, Ga., April 3, 1880; attended the grade schools, Camilla
High School, the academic department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., for
nearly four years, and was graduated from the law department of that
university in 1902; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice at Camilla, Ga.; mayor of Camilla 1904-1906; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1908; appointed and subsequently elected
judge of the superior court of the Albany circuit and served from 1912 until
he resigned in 1916, having become a candidate for Congress; unsuccessful
candidate for election in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and
served from March 4, 1925, until his death; chairman, Select Committee on
Tax Exempt Foundations (Eighty-second Congress); had been reelected to the
Eighty-third Congress; died in Bethesda, Md., December 24, 1952; interment
in Oakview Cemetery, Camilla, Ga.
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COYLE, William Radford, (1878 - 1962)
COYLE, William Radford, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Washington, D.C., July 10, 1878; attended the public schools, and Columbian
College (now George Washington University), Washington, D.C., in 1898 and
1899; field assistant in the United States Geological Survey 1896-1899;
attended the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., in 1900; served in the United
States Marine Corps as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain
1900-1906; attended the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia in 1906 and 1907; moved to Germantown, Pa., in 1906 and to
Bethlehem, Pa., in 1908; school director of Bethlehem, Pa., 1912-1918;
captain of the Fourth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, in 1913; was
commissioned a captain in the United States Marine Corps in 1918, and later
the same year, a major; promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1932; president of
the American Wholesale Coal Association in 1921 and 1922; trustee to settle
the affairs of the Tidewater Coal Exchange 1922-1925; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress;
elected to the Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4,
1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the
Seventy-third Congress, for election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress,
and for election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; delegate to the
Republican National Conventions in 1936 and 1944; chairman of civilian
defense in Bethlehem, Pa., 1941-1945; vice president of Weston Dodson & Co.,
Inc., 1932-1954; chairman of Bethlehem Redevelopment Authority 1953-1959;
died in Bethlehem, Pa., January 30, 1962; interment in Nisky Hill Cemetery.
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CRUMPACKER, Maurice Edgar, (1886 - 1927)
CRUMPACKER, Maurice Edgar, (son of Edgar Dean Crumpacker and cousin of
Shepard J. Crumpacker, Jr.), a Representative from Oregon; born in
Valparaiso, Porter County, Ind., December 19, 1886; attended the public
schools of Valparaiso, Ind., and Washington, D.C.; was graduated from the
Culver (Ind.) Military Academy in 1905 and from the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor in 1909; studied law at Harvard University; was admitted to the
bar in 1912 and commenced practice in Portland, Oreg.; was commissioned
December 31, 1917, as first lieutenant in the aviation section of the Signal
Reserve Corps; accepted appointment as captain in the Air Service
(production), National Army, July 8, 1918, and served until December 27,
1918, when he was honorably discharged as captain in the Air Service
(aircraft production); special deputy district attorney for Multnomah
County, Oreg., in 1921; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination
for Congress in 1922; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and
Seventieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in San
Francisco, Calif., July 24, 1927; interment in Riverview Cemetery, Portland,
Oreg.
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DAVENPORT, Frederick Morgan, (1866 - 1956)
DAVENPORT, Frederick Morgan, a Representative from New York; born in Salem,
Essex County, Mass., August 27, 1866; attended the public schools; moved
with his parents to Pennsylvania in 1874 and settled in New Milford; moved
to Yonkers, N.Y., in 1893; was graduated from Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Conn., in 1889 and from Columbia University, New York City, in
1905; member of the faculty of political science of Hamilton College,
Clinton, N.Y., 1904-1929; served in the State senate 1909-1911; unsuccessful
Progressive candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1912 and for
Governor in 1914; again a member of the State senate 1919-1925; chairman of
the New York State Legislative Committee on Taxation and Retrenchment
1919-1925; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924; elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932
to the Seventy-third Congress and for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth
Congress; president of the National Institute of Public Affairs, Washington,
D.C., 1934-1949; chairman of the Federal Personnel Council, Washington,
D.C., from 1939 until his retirement in 1953; died in Washington, D.C.,
December 26, 1956; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City.
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DOUGLASS, John Joseph, (1873 - 1939)
DOUGLASS, John Joseph, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in East
Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., February 9, 1873; attended the public
schools; was graduated from Boston College in 1893, and from the law
department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1896; was admitted
to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Boston; member of the State
house of representatives in 1899, 1900, 1906, and again in 1913; delegate to
the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918; author and
playwright; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1928 and
1932; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the four succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Education
(Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1934; resumed the practice of law; served as commissioner of
penal institutions of Boston from 1935 until his death in West Roxbury,
Suffolk County, Mass., April 5, 1939; interment in St. Joseph's Cemetery.
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EATON, Charles Aubrey, (1868 - 1953)
EATON, Charles Aubrey, (uncle of William Robb Eaton), a Representative from
New Jersey; born in Nova Scotia March 29, 1868; attended the public schools;
was graduated from Acadia University, Nova Scotia, in 1890 and from Newton
Theological Institution, Newton Center, Mass., in 1893; pastor in Natick,
Mass., 1892-1895, Toronto, Canada, 1895-1901, and Cleveland, Ohio,
1901-1909; moved to Watchung, Somerset County, N.J., in 1909; pastor of the
Madison Avenue Church, New York City, 1909-1919; sociological editor of the
Toronto Globe, Toronto, Canada, 1896-1901; associate editor, Westminster,
Toronto, Canada, 1899-1901; head of the national service section of the
United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation from November 1917
to January 1919; editor of Leslie's Weekly in 1919 and 1920; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1925-January 3, 1953); chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs
(Eightieth Congress), Select Committee on Foreign Aid (Eightieth Congress);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; died in Washington, D.C.,
January 23, 1953; interment in Hillside Cemetery, Plainfield, N.J.
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EDWARDS, Charles Gordon, (1878 - 1931)
EDWARDS, Charles Gordon, a Representative from Georgia; born in Daisy,
Tattnall (now Evans) County, Ga., July 2, 1878; attended the public schools,
Gordon Institute, Barnesville, Ga., and Florida State College at Lake City;
was graduated from the law department of the University of Georgia at Athens
in 1898; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Reidsville; moved to Savannah in 1900 and continued the practice of law;
also interested in agricultural pursuits; served as a sergeant in the
Savannah Volunteer Guards, Company B, Coast Artillery, in 1902 and 1903 and
as a second lieutenant in the Oglethorpe Light Infantry of the First Georgia
Regiment of Infantry in 1903 and 1904; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth
and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1917); did not
seek reelection in 1916; resumed the practice of law in Savannah, Ga.;
president of the Savannah Board of Trade in 1919 and 1920; trustee of the
Southern Methodist College, McRae, Ga.; member of the Harbor Commission of
Savannah, Ga., 1920-1924; elected to the Sixty-ninth and to the three
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in
Atlanta, Ga., July 13, 1931; interment in Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah,
Ga.
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ENGLEBRIGHT, Harry Lane, (1884 - 1943)
ENGLEBRIGHT, Harry Lane, (son of William F. Englebright), a Representative
from California; born in Nevada City, Nevada County, Calif., January 2,
1884; attended the public schools; attended the University of California at
Berkeley; was graduated as a mining engineer, and followed his profession;
mineral inspector for the field division of the General Land Office, and
also engineer for the State Conservation Commission of California 1911-1914;
actively connected with various mining enterprises in California; elected as
a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of John E. Raker; reelected to the Seventieth and to the eight
succeeding Congresses and served from August 31, 1926, until his death;
minority whip (Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth Congresses); died in
Bethesda, Md., May 13, 1943; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Nevada City,
Calif.
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ESLICK, Edward Everett, (1872 - 1932)
ESLICK, Edward Everett, (husband of Willa McCord Eslick), a Representative
from Tennessee; born near Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn., April 19, 1872;
attended the public schools and Bethel College, Russellville, Ky.; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Pulaski; also
engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits; served as Government appeal
agent for Giles County during the First World War; elected as a Democrat to
the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March
4, 1925, until his death in the Capitol, at Washington, D.C., on June 14,
1932, while addressing the House of Representatives; interment in Maplewood
Cemetery, Pulaski, Tenn.
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DGH
ESTERLY, Charles Joseph, (1888 - 1940)
ESTERLY, Charles Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Reading, Pa., February 8, 1888; attended the public schools; employed with
an electric company until 1916 and later in the sales department of a
knitting mill; also engaged in the breeding of Ayrshire cattle and Berkshire
hogs; served as president and director of a water company, and as a director
of a knitting mill and bottle-stopper company; member of the board of school
directors of Wyomissing, Pa., 1914-1920; committeeman of Wyomissing Borough
1917-1921; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1920; member of
the Republican State committee 1922-1924; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); declined to be a
candidate for renomination in 1926; again elected to the Seventy-first
Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1930; resumed former business interests; died in Wernersville, Pa.,
September 3, 1940; interment in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa.
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FITZGERALD, William Thomas, (1858 - 1939)
FITZGERALD, William Thomas, a Representative from Ohio; born in Greenville,
Darke County, Ohio, October 13, 1858; attended the rural schools and the
Greenville High School; member of the National Guard of Ohio 1875-1882, and
saw service during the Newark riots in 1877; was graduated from the National
Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, in 1887; taught in the Greenville High
School 1886-1889; was graduated from the medical department of the
University of Wooster, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891 and commenced practice in
Greenville in 1891; member of the board of education 1906-1914; mayor of
Greenville 1921-1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and
Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929); chairman, Committee on
Revision of the Laws (Sixty-ninth Congress), Committee on Invalid Pensions
(Seventieth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1928 to the
Seventy-first Congress; resumed the practice of medicine in Greenville,
Ohio, where he died on January 12, 1939; interment in Greenville Cemetery.
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FLAHERTY, Lawrence James, (1878 - 1926)
FLAHERTY, Lawrence James, a Representative from California; born in San
Mateo, San Mateo County, Calif., July 4, 1878; moved with his parents to San
Francisco in 1888; attended the public schools; learned the trade of cement
mason; member of the board of police commissioners of San Francisco
1911-1915; served in the State senate 1915-1922; president of the San
Francisco Building Trades 1921-1926; appointed United States surveyor of
customs for the port of San Francisco on November 1, 1921, and served until
March 3, 1925, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as
a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925,
until his death in New York City, June 13, 1926; interment in Holy Cross
Cemetery, near San Mateo, Calif.
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FLETCHER, Thomas Brooks, (1879 - 1945)
FLETCHER, Thomas Brooks, a Representative from Ohio; born in Mechanicstown,
Carroll County, Ohio, October 10, 1879; attended the public schools, a
private school at Augusta, Ohio, and the Richard School of Dramatic Art in
Cleveland; was graduated from Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, in 1900;
editor of the Daily Leader, Alliance, Ohio, 1903-1905; served on the staff
of the Morning News, Canton, Ohio, from 1905 to 1906; became a Redpath
lecturer in 1906; editor and publisher of the Daily Tribune at Marion, Ohio,
1910-1922; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; elected to the
Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4,
1933-January 3, 1939); chairman, Committee on Election of President, Vice
President, and Representatives (Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth
Congresses), Committee on the Census (Seventy-fifth Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for
election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; resumed lecturing and
chautauqua work; died in Washington, D.C., July 1, 1945; interment in
Mechanicstown Cemetery, Mechanicstown, Ohio.
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FORT, Franklin William, (1880 - 1937)
FORT, Franklin William, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Newark,
N.J., March 30, 1880; moved in 1888 with his parents to East Orange, N.J.;
attended the public schools and Newark Academy; was graduated from
Lawrenceville School in 1897 and from Princeton University in 1901; attended
New York Law School 1901-1903; was admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced
practice in Newark; recorder of East Orange, N.J., in 1907 and 1908; during
the First World War served as a volunteer on the staff of the United States
Food Administrator, Washington, D.C., 1917-1919; engaged in the insurance
business in 1919 at Newark, N.J., and was also interested in banking;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for
renomination, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination as United
States Senator in 1930; served as secretary of the Republican National
Committee 1928-1930; resumed the practice of law; served as chairman of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board from January 1932 to March 1933; died on June
20, 1937, in Rochester, Minn.; interment in Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield,
N.J.
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FOSS, Frank Herbert, (1865 - 1947)
FOSS, Frank Herbert, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Augusta,
Kennebec County, Maine, September 20, 1865; attended the public schools, and
was graduated from Kent Hill (Maine) Seminary in 1886; moved to Fitchburg,
Mass., in 1893; member of a firm engaged as general contractors in the
construction of industrial plants, and also interested in banking; member of
the Fitchburg city council 1906-1912; water commissioner 1913-1915; mayor of
Fitchburg 1917-1920; member of the Republican State committee 1915-1946, and
served as chairman 1921-1924; delegate to the Republican State conventions
from 1915 to 1946; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the
four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; resumed
management in the contracting business and resided in Fitchburg, Mass.,
until his death there on February 15, 1947; interment in Forest Hill
Cemetery.
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FURLOW, Allen John, (1890 - 1954)
FURLOW, Allen John, a Representative from Minnesota; born in Rochester,
Olmsted County, Minn., November 9, 1890; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Rochester High School in 1910; during the First World War
served overseas as a pilot in the aviation branch of the Army; promoted to
first lieutenant; was graduated from the law department of George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., in 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1920 and
commenced practice in Rochester, Minn.; member of the Minnesota State senate
1923-1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1928; employed in the legal department of the Curtiss-Wright
Corporation, Washington, D.C., in 1929 and 1930; in 1933 was appointed by
the United States Attorney General as a special assistant in cases assigned
under the petroleum code; was in the legal department of the Veterans
Administration, Washington, D.C., 1934-1937; returned to Rochester, Minn.,
and practiced law until his death, January 29, 1954; interment in Oakwood
Cemetery.
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GOFF, Guy Despard, (1866 - 1933)
GOFF, Guy Despard, (son of Nathan Goff and father of Louise Goff Reece), a
Senator from West Virginia; born in Clarksburg, Harrison County, W.Va.,
September 13, 1866; attended the common schools and William and Mary
College, Williamsburg, Va.; graduated from Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio,
in 1888 and from the law department of Harvard University in 1891; admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; moved to
Milwaukee, Wis., in 1893 and continued the practice of law; elected
prosecuting attorney of Milwaukee County, Wis., in 1895; appointed by
President William H. Taft as United States district attorney for the eastern
district of Wisconsin 1911-1915; appointed special assistant to the Attorney
General of the United States 1917; during the First World War was
commissioned a colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Department, United
States Army, and served in France and Germany in 1918 and 1919; appointed by
President Woodrow Wilson as general counsel of the United States Shipping
Board in 1920 and later became a member, serving until 1921; appointed an
assistant to the Attorney General on several occasions between 1920-1923;
returned to Clarksburg, W.Va., in 1923; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1925, to March 3, 1931; was
not a candidate for renomination in 1930; chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in Executive Departments (Seventy-first Congress); resided in
Washington, D.C.; died at his winter home in Thomasville, Ga., January 7,
1933; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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GOLDER, Benjamin Martin, (1891 - 1946)
GOLDER, Benjamin Martin, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Alliance, near Vineland, Cumberland County, N.J., December 23, 1891; moved
with his parents to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1893; attended the public schools
and was graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania
at Philadelphia in 1913; was admitted to the bar in 1914 and commenced
practice in Philadelphia; enlisted in the Naval Aviation Service during the
First World War and was honorably discharged as ensign after the armistice;
member of the State house of representatives 1916-1924; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932 and
for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed the practice
of law in Philadelphia, Pa.; commissioned a captain in the United States
Army on February 5, 1943, and served until discharged as a lieutenant
colonel July 1, 1945; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in the
banking business; died December 30, 1946, at Philadelphia, Pa.; interment in
Mount Sinai Cemetery.
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GOODWIN, Godfrey Gummer, (1873 - 1933)
GOODWIN, Godfrey Gummer, a Representative from Minnesota; born near St.
Peter, Nicollet County, Minn., January 11, 1873; moved with his mother to
St. Paul, Minn., in 1882; attended the public schools and was graduated from
the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1895 and from the law
department of that university in 1896; was admitted to the bar in 1896 and
commenced practice in Cambridge, Minn.; prosecuting attorney of Isanti
County 1898-1907; again elected as prosecuting attorney of Isanti County in
November 1913 and served until February 15, 1925, when he resigned, having
been elected to Congress; president of the Cambridge (Minn.) Board of
Education 1914-1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the
three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death;
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; died in Washington, D.C.,
on February 16, 1933; interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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GORMAN, John Jerome, (1883 - 1949)
GORMAN, John Jerome, a Representative from Illinois; born in Minneapolis,
Minn., June 2, 1883; attended the common schools and the Bryant and Stratton
Business College at Chicago, Ill.; clerk and letter carrier in the Chicago
city post office 1902-1918; studied law at Loyola University in Chicago and
was graduated in 1914; was admitted to the bar in 1914 and commenced
practice in Chicago; delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4,
1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; resumed the
practice of law at Chicago; elected to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4,
1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; resumed the
practice of law in Chicago, where he died February 24, 1949; interment in
All Saints Cemetery.
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GOULD, Arthur Robinson, (1857 - 1946)
GOULD, Arthur Robinson, a Senator from Maine; born in East Corinth,
Penobscot County, Maine, March 16, 1857; attended the common schools and
East Corinth Academy; moved to Presque Isle, Maine, in 1887; engaged in the
lumber business and built power plants and an electric railroad; president
of the Aroostook Valley Railroad Co. 1902-1946; member, State senate
1921-1922; elected on September 13, 1926, as a Republican to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bert M. Fernald and
served from November 30, 1926, to March 3, 1931; was not a candidate for
renomination in 1930; chairman, Committee on Immigration (Seventy-first
Congress); engaged in the railroad and lumber businesses; died in Presque
Isle, Maine, July 24, 1946; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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GREEN, Robert Alexis (Lex), (1892 - 1973)
GREEN, Robert Alexis (Lex), a Representative from Florida; born near Lake
Butler, Bradford County (now Union County), Fla., February 10, 1892;
attended the rural schools; commenced teaching in Liberty Public School at
the age of 16; was graduated from the high school at Lake Butler in 1913;
messenger in the State house of representatives 1913-1915; assistant chief
clerk of the State house of representatives 1915-1917 and chief clerk in
1917 and 1918; University of Florida at Gainesville, B.S., 1916; studied
accounting and business administration at Howard University; principal of
Suwannee High School in 1916 and 1917; vice president of the Florida
Educational Association in 1918; member of the State house of
representatives 1918-1920, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1918; studied
law at Yale University; was admitted to the bar in 1921 and commenced
practice in Starke, Fla; elected judge of Bradford County, Fla., in 1921 and
served until 1924, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth Congress; reelected to the nine
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his resignation
on November 25, 1944, to enter the United States Navy; chairman, Committee
on Territories (Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth Congresses); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress, but was an
unsuccessful candidate for the Florida gubernatorial nomination; served as a
lieutenant commander in the United States Navy from November 25, 1944, to
November 2, 1945; resumed the practice of law at Starke, Fla., and served as
county prosecuting attorney and as city attorney for the city of Starke;
member, Democratic Executive committee, Bradford County, and State
Democratic Executive committee; died February 9, 1973, in Gainesville, Fla.;
interment in New River Cemetery in Bradford County near the community of New
River.
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HALE, Fletcher, (1883 - 1931)
HALE, Fletcher, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Portland,
Maine, January 22, 1883; attended the public schools; was graduated from
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1905; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Littleton, N.H.; moved to Laconia,
N.H., in 1912 and continued the practice of his profession; city solicitor
of Laconia in 1915; solicitor for Belknap County 1915-1920; member of the
board of education 1916-1925, serving as chairman 1918-1925; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1918; member of the State tax commission
1920-1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in
Brooklyn (N.Y.) Naval Hospital on October 22, 1931; interment in Union
Cemetery, Laconia, N.H.
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HALL, Albert Richardson, (1884 - 1969)
HALL, Albert Richardson, a Representative from Indiana; born near West
Baden, Orange County, Ind., August 27, 1884; attended the district school
and the Paoli (Ind.) High School; was graduated from Indiana Central
Business College at Indianapolis in 1906 and from Earlham College, Richmond,
Ind., in 1912; principal of the high school at French Lick 1909-1911;
superintendent of schools of Fairmount 1913-1917, of Waterloo in 1917 and
1918, and of Grant County 1921-1925; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses (March 4, 1925-March
3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the
Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth
Congress; engaged in commercial printing 1932-1942; secretary and treasurer
of Driveways Contractors, Inc.; engaged in the real estate business in
Marion, Ind., editor of Fairmount, Ind., newspaper, and operator of Indiana
Hotel in Marion, Ind., from 1961 until his death in Marion, Ind., November
29, 1969; interment in I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
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HARE, Butler Black, (1875 - 1967)
HARE, Butler Black, (father of James Butler Hare), a Representative from
South Carolina; born on a farm in Edgefield (now Saluda) County, near
Leesville, S.C., November 25, 1875; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Newberry (S.C.) College in 1899; taught in the public schools
1900-1903; secretary to Representative George W. Croft in 1904 and to his
successor, Representative Theodore G. Croft, in 1905; professor of history
and economics in Leesville (S.C.) College 1906-1908; special agent in the
woman and child labor investigation conducted by the United States Bureau of
Labor in 1908 and 1909; was graduated from George Washington University,
Washington, D.C., in 1910, and from its law department in 1913; was admitted
to the bar in 1913 and commenced practice in Saluda, S.C., in 1915; worked
for the United States Department of Agriculture 1911-1924; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; resumed the practice of law in Saluda, S.C., in 1924
and 1925; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on
Insular Affairs (Seventy-second Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1933; resumed his former pursuits; elected to the
Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1939-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946;
resumed the practice of law and his agricultural pursuits; died in Saluda,
S.C., December 30, 1967; interment in Travis Park Cemetery.
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HOGG, David, (1886 - 1973)
HOGG, David, a Representative from Indiana; born near Crothersville, Jackson
County, Ind., August 21, 1886; attended the common schools; was graduated
from Indiana University College of Liberal Arts at Bloomington in 1909 and
from the law department of Indiana University in 1912; was admitted to the
bar in 1913 and commenced practice in Fort Wayne, Ind.; chairman of the
Allen County Republican Committee 1922-1924; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3,
1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third
Congress and for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress and in 1936
to the Seventy-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law; organized a
mutual life insurance company in 1939; president of Goodwill Industries of
Fort Wayne 1940-1943; co-publisher of an interdenominational newspaper,
1941-1946; again resumed the practice of law; resided in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
until his death there October 23, 1973; interment in Lindenwood Cemetery.
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HOOPER, Joseph Lawrence, (1877 - 1934)
HOOPER, Joseph Lawrence, a Representative from Michigan; born in Cleveland,
Ohio, December 22, 1877; moved to Michigan with his parents, who settled in
Battle Creek in 1891; attended the graded and high schools; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Battle Creek; circuit
court commissioner of Calhoun County 1901-1903; prosecuting attorney of
Calhoun County 1903-1907; city attorney of Battle Creek 1916-1918; elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Arthur B. Williams; reelected to the Seventieth and to the
three succeeding Congresses and served from August 18, 1925, until his death
in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1934; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery,
Battle Creek, Mich.
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HOUSTON, Robert Griffith, (1867 - 1946)
HOUSTON, Robert Griffith, (nephew of John Wallace Houston), a Representative
from Delaware; born in Milton, Sussex County, Del., October 13, 1867;
attended the public schools at Lewes, Del., 1872-1882; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1888 and
commenced practice in Georgetown, Sussex County, Del.; member of the
Delaware National Guard 1890-1895; owner and publisher of the Sussex
Republican 1893-1934; continued its publication under the name of the Sussex
Countian 1934-1946; collector of customs for the district of Delaware
1900-1904; president of the First National Bank of Georgetown 1901-1903;
member of the citizens' committee which drafted the Delaware school law
enacted in 1921; assistant attorney general of the State 1920-1924 and
1933-1935; employed in the Bureau of Law, Office of the Alien Property;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1932; resumed the publishing business and also the practice
of law at Georgetown, Del.; died in Lewes, Del., January 29, 1946; interment
in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Lewes, Del.
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IRWIN, Edward Michael, (1869 - 1933)
IRWIN, Edward Michael, a Representative from Illinois; born near Leasburg,
Crawford County, Mo., on April 14, 1869; attended the public schools of his
native city; taught school in Leasburg, Mo.; attended the University of
Missouri at Columbia; was graduated from Missouri Medical College at St.
Louis in 1892; moved to New Athens, St. Clair County, Ill., in the same year
and commenced the practice of medicine; chairman of the Republican county
central committee 1898-1924; moved to Belleville, St. Clair County, Ill., in
1903 and continued the practice of medicine; coroner of St. Clair County
1904-1908; elected president of the Belleville Bank & Trust Co. in 1910;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1920; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses
(March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-first
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the
Seventy-second Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; died in
Belleville, Ill., January 30, 1933; interment in Green Mount Cemetery.
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JENKINS, Thomas Albert, (1880 - 1959)
JENKINS, Thomas Albert, a Representative from Ohio; born at Oak Hill,
Jackson County, Ohio, October 28, 1880; attended the grade and high schools;
was graduated from Providence University, Oak Hill, Ohio, in 1901 and from
the law department of the Ohio State University at Columbus in 1907; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Ironton, Ohio;
prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County, Ohio, 1916-1920; served in the
State senate in 1923 and 1924; delegate to the Republican State conventions
in 1920 and 1924; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the
sixteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1959); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1958; died in Worthington, Ohio, December 21,
1959; interment in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton, Ohio.
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JOHNSON, Noble Jacob, (1887 - 1968)
JOHNSON, Noble Jacob, a Representative from Indiana; born in Terre Haute,
Vigo County, Ind., August 23, 1887; attended public schools; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commenced practice in Terre Haute;
deputy prosecuting attorney for the forty-third judicial circuit of Indiana
in 1917 and 1918; prosecuting attorney for the same judicial circuit
1921-1924; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and
Seventy-first Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress, and for
election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; elected to the Seventy-sixth
and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until
his resignation on July 1, 1948; appointed a judge of the United States
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and served from July 2, 1948, to July
19, 1956, and as chief judge from July 20, 1956, until his retirement August
7, 1958; resided in Washington, D.C., until his death March 17, 1968;
interment in Bethesda Cemetery, West Terre Haute, Ind.
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ESTERLY, Charles Joseph, (1888 - 1940)
ESTERLY, Charles Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Reading, Pa., February 8, 1888; attended the public schools; employed with
an electric company until 1916 and later in the sales department of a
knitting mill; also engaged in the breeding of Ayrshire cattle and Berkshire
hogs; served as president and director of a water company, and as a director
of a knitting mill and bottle-stopper company; member of the board of school
directors of Wyomissing, Pa., 1914-1920; committeeman of Wyomissing Borough
1917-1921; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1920; member of
the Republican State committee 1922-1924; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); declined to be a
candidate for renomination in 1926; again elected to the Seventy-first
Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1930; resumed former business interests; died in Wernersville, Pa.,
September 3, 1940; interment in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa.
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FITZGERALD, William Thomas, (1858 - 1939)
FITZGERALD, William Thomas, a Representative from Ohio; born in Greenville,
Darke County, Ohio, October 13, 1858; attended the rural schools and the
Greenville High School; member of the National Guard of Ohio 1875-1882, and
saw service during the Newark riots in 1877; was graduated from the National
Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, in 1887; taught in the Greenville High
School 1886-1889; was graduated from the medical department of the
University of Wooster, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891 and commenced practice in
Greenville in 1891; member of the board of education 1906-1914; mayor of
Greenville 1921-1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and
Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929); chairman, Committee on
Revision of the Laws (Sixty-ninth Congress), Committee on Invalid Pensions
(Seventieth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1928 to the
Seventy-first Congress; resumed the practice of medicine in Greenville,
Ohio, where he died on January 12, 1939; interment in Greenville Cemetery.
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FLAHERTY, Lawrence James, (1878 - 1926)
FLAHERTY, Lawrence James, a Representative from California; born in San
Mateo, San Mateo County, Calif., July 4, 1878; moved with his parents to San
Francisco in 1888; attended the public schools; learned the trade of cement
mason; member of the board of police commissioners of San Francisco
1911-1915; served in the State senate 1915-1922; president of the San
Francisco Building Trades 1921-1926; appointed United States surveyor of
customs for the port of San Francisco on November 1, 1921, and served until
March 3, 1925, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as
a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925,
until his death in New York City, June 13, 1926; interment in Holy Cross
Cemetery, near San Mateo, Calif.
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FLETCHER, Thomas Brooks, (1879 - 1945)
FLETCHER, Thomas Brooks, a Representative from Ohio; born in Mechanicstown,
Carroll County, Ohio, October 10, 1879; attended the public schools, a
private school at Augusta, Ohio, and the Richard School of Dramatic Art in
Cleveland; was graduated from Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, in 1900;
editor of the Daily Leader, Alliance, Ohio, 1903-1905; served on the staff
of the Morning News, Canton, Ohio, from 1905 to 1906; became a Redpath
lecturer in 1906; editor and publisher of the Daily Tribune at Marion, Ohio,
1910-1922; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; elected to the
Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4,
1933-January 3, 1939); chairman, Committee on Election of President, Vice
President, and Representatives (Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth
Congresses), Committee on the Census (Seventy-fifth Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for
election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; resumed lecturing and
chautauqua work; died in Washington, D.C., July 1, 1945; interment in
Mechanicstown Cemetery, Mechanicstown, Ohio.
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FORT, Franklin William, (1880 - 1937)
FORT, Franklin William, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Newark,
N.J., March 30, 1880; moved in 1888 with his parents to East Orange, N.J.;
attended the public schools and Newark Academy; was graduated from
Lawrenceville School in 1897 and from Princeton University in 1901; attended
New York Law School 1901-1903; was admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced
practice in Newark; recorder of East Orange, N.J., in 1907 and 1908; during
the First World War served as a volunteer on the staff of the United States
Food Administrator, Washington, D.C., 1917-1919; engaged in the insurance
business in 1919 at Newark, N.J., and was also interested in banking;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for
renomination, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination as United
States Senator in 1930; served as secretary of the Republican National
Committee 1928-1930; resumed the practice of law; served as chairman of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board from January 1932 to March 1933; died on June
20, 1937, in Rochester, Minn.; interment in Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield,
N.J.
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FOSS, Frank Herbert, (1865 - 1947)
FOSS, Frank Herbert, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Augusta,
Kennebec County, Maine, September 20, 1865; attended the public schools, and
was graduated from Kent Hill (Maine) Seminary in 1886; moved to Fitchburg,
Mass., in 1893; member of a firm engaged as general contractors in the
construction of industrial plants, and also interested in banking; member of
the Fitchburg city council 1906-1912; water commissioner 1913-1915; mayor of
Fitchburg 1917-1920; member of the Republican State committee 1915-1946, and
served as chairman 1921-1924; delegate to the Republican State conventions
from 1915 to 1946; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the
four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; resumed
management in the contracting business and resided in Fitchburg, Mass.,
until his death there on February 15, 1947; interment in Forest Hill
Cemetery.
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FURLOW, Allen John, (1890 - 1954)
FURLOW, Allen John, a Representative from Minnesota; born in Rochester,
Olmsted County, Minn., November 9, 1890; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Rochester High School in 1910; during the First World War
served overseas as a pilot in the aviation branch of the Army; promoted to
first lieutenant; was graduated from the law department of George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., in 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1920 and
commenced practice in Rochester, Minn.; member of the Minnesota State senate
1923-1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1928; employed in the legal department of the Curtiss-Wright
Corporation, Washington, D.C., in 1929 and 1930; in 1933 was appointed by
the United States Attorney General as a special assistant in cases assigned
under the petroleum code; was in the legal department of the Veterans
Administration, Washington, D.C., 1934-1937; returned to Rochester, Minn.,
and practiced law until his death, January 29, 1954; interment in Oakwood
Cemetery.
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GOFF, Guy Despard, (1866 - 1933)
GOFF, Guy Despard, (son of Nathan Goff and father of Louise Goff Reece), a
Senator from West Virginia; born in Clarksburg, Harrison County, W.Va.,
September 13, 1866; attended the common schools and William and Mary
College, Williamsburg, Va.; graduated from Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio,
in 1888 and from the law department of Harvard University in 1891; admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; moved to
Milwaukee, Wis., in 1893 and continued the practice of law; elected
prosecuting attorney of Milwaukee County, Wis., in 1895; appointed by
President William H. Taft as United States district attorney for the eastern
district of Wisconsin 1911-1915; appointed special assistant to the Attorney
General of the United States 1917; during the First World War was
commissioned a colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Department, United
States Army, and served in France and Germany in 1918 and 1919; appointed by
President Woodrow Wilson as general counsel of the United States Shipping
Board in 1920 and later became a member, serving until 1921; appointed an
assistant to the Attorney General on several occasions between 1920-1923;
returned to Clarksburg, W.Va., in 1923; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1925, to March 3, 1931; was
not a candidate for renomination in 1930; chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in Executive Departments (Seventy-first Congress); resided in
Washington, D.C.; died at his winter home in Thomasville, Ga., January 7,
1933; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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GOLDER, Benjamin Martin, (1891 - 1946)
GOLDER, Benjamin Martin, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Alliance, near Vineland, Cumberland County, N.J., December 23, 1891; moved
with his parents to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1893; attended the public schools
and was graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania
at Philadelphia in 1913; was admitted to the bar in 1914 and commenced
practice in Philadelphia; enlisted in the Naval Aviation Service during the
First World War and was honorably discharged as ensign after the armistice;
member of the State house of representatives 1916-1924; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932 and
for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed the practice
of law in Philadelphia, Pa.; commissioned a captain in the United States
Army on February 5, 1943, and served until discharged as a lieutenant
colonel July 1, 1945; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in the
banking business; died December 30, 1946, at Philadelphia, Pa.; interment in
Mount Sinai Cemetery.
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GOODWIN, Godfrey Gummer, (1873 - 1933)
GOODWIN, Godfrey Gummer, a Representative from Minnesota; born near St.
Peter, Nicollet County, Minn., January 11, 1873; moved with his mother to
St. Paul, Minn., in 1882; attended the public schools and was graduated from
the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1895 and from the law
department of that university in 1896; was admitted to the bar in 1896 and
commenced practice in Cambridge, Minn.; prosecuting attorney of Isanti
County 1898-1907; again elected as prosecuting attorney of Isanti County in
November 1913 and served until February 15, 1925, when he resigned, having
been elected to Congress; president of the Cambridge (Minn.) Board of
Education 1914-1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the
three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death;
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; died in Washington, D.C.,
on February 16, 1933; interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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GORMAN, John Jerome, (1883 - 1949)
GORMAN, John Jerome, a Representative from Illinois; born in Minneapolis,
Minn., June 2, 1883; attended the common schools and the Bryant and Stratton
Business College at Chicago, Ill.; clerk and letter carrier in the Chicago
city post office 1902-1918; studied law at Loyola University in Chicago and
was graduated in 1914; was admitted to the bar in 1914 and commenced
practice in Chicago; delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4,
1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; resumed the
practice of law at Chicago; elected to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4,
1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; resumed the
practice of law in Chicago, where he died February 24, 1949; interment in
All Saints Cemetery.
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GOULD, Arthur Robinson, (1857 - 1946)
GOULD, Arthur Robinson, a Senator from Maine; born in East Corinth,
Penobscot County, Maine, March 16, 1857; attended the common schools and
East Corinth Academy; moved to Presque Isle, Maine, in 1887; engaged in the
lumber business and built power plants and an electric railroad; president
of the Aroostook Valley Railroad Co. 1902-1946; member, State senate
1921-1922; elected on September 13, 1926, as a Republican to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bert M. Fernald and
served from November 30, 1926, to March 3, 1931; was not a candidate for
renomination in 1930; chairman, Committee on Immigration (Seventy-first
Congress); engaged in the railroad and lumber businesses; died in Presque
Isle, Maine, July 24, 1946; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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GREEN, Robert Alexis (Lex), (1892 - 1973)
GREEN, Robert Alexis (Lex), a Representative from Florida; born near Lake
Butler, Bradford County (now Union County), Fla., February 10, 1892;
attended the rural schools; commenced teaching in Liberty Public School at
the age of 16; was graduated from the high school at Lake Butler in 1913;
messenger in the State house of representatives 1913-1915; assistant chief
clerk of the State house of representatives 1915-1917 and chief clerk in
1917 and 1918; University of Florida at Gainesville, B.S., 1916; studied
accounting and business administration at Howard University; principal of
Suwannee High School in 1916 and 1917; vice president of the Florida
Educational Association in 1918; member of the State house of
representatives 1918-1920, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1918; studied
law at Yale University; was admitted to the bar in 1921 and commenced
practice in Starke, Fla; elected judge of Bradford County, Fla., in 1921 and
served until 1924, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth Congress; reelected to the nine
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his resignation
on November 25, 1944, to enter the United States Navy; chairman, Committee
on Territories (Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth Congresses); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress, but was an
unsuccessful candidate for the Florida gubernatorial nomination; served as a
lieutenant commander in the United States Navy from November 25, 1944, to
November 2, 1945; resumed the practice of law at Starke, Fla., and served as
county prosecuting attorney and as city attorney for the city of Starke;
member, Democratic Executive committee, Bradford County, and State
Democratic Executive committee; died February 9, 1973, in Gainesville, Fla.;
interment in New River Cemetery in Bradford County near the community of New
River.
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HALE, Fletcher, (1883 - 1931)
HALE, Fletcher, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Portland,
Maine, January 22, 1883; attended the public schools; was graduated from
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1905; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Littleton, N.H.; moved to Laconia,
N.H., in 1912 and continued the practice of his profession; city solicitor
of Laconia in 1915; solicitor for Belknap County 1915-1920; member of the
board of education 1916-1925, serving as chairman 1918-1925; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1918; member of the State tax commission
1920-1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in
Brooklyn (N.Y.) Naval Hospital on October 22, 1931; interment in Union
Cemetery, Laconia, N.H.
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HALL, Albert Richardson, (1884 - 1969)
HALL, Albert Richardson, a Representative from Indiana; born near West
Baden, Orange County, Ind., August 27, 1884; attended the district school
and the Paoli (Ind.) High School; was graduated from Indiana Central
Business College at Indianapolis in 1906 and from Earlham College, Richmond,
Ind., in 1912; principal of the high school at French Lick 1909-1911;
superintendent of schools of Fairmount 1913-1917, of Waterloo in 1917 and
1918, and of Grant County 1921-1925; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses (March 4, 1925-March
3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the
Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth
Congress; engaged in commercial printing 1932-1942; secretary and treasurer
of Driveways Contractors, Inc.; engaged in the real estate business in
Marion, Ind., editor of Fairmount, Ind., newspaper, and operator of Indiana
Hotel in Marion, Ind., from 1961 until his death in Marion, Ind., November
29, 1969; interment in I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
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JOHNSON, William Richard, (1875 - 1938)
JOHNSON, William Richard, a Representative from Illinois; born in Rock
Island, Ill., May 15, 1875; moved with his parents to Freeport, Ill., in
1879; attended the public schools and the College of Commerce at Freeport;
served from 1890 to 1894 as an apprentice and from 1894 to 1899 as a
locomotive blacksmith in the Illinois Central Railroad shops at Freeport;
member of the United States Capitol police force 1901-1919; appointed
superintendent of the folding room of the House of Representatives on June
18, 1919, and served until March 3, 1925, when he resigned; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932;
returned to Freeport, Ill., where he died on January 2, 1938; interment in
Oakland Cemetery.
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KAHN, Florence Prag, (1866 - 1948)
KAHN, Florence Prag, (wife of Julius Kahn), a Representative from
California; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 9, 1866; moved to
California in 1869 with her parents, who settled in San Francisco; graduated
from Girls' High School, San Francisco, Calif., 1883; A.B., University of
California, Berkeley, Calif., 1887; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of her husband, United States Representative-elect Julius Kahn, and
reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (February 17, 1925-January 3,
1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-fifth Congress
in 1936; died on November 16, 1948, in San Francisco, Calif.; interment in
Home of Peace Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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KEMP, Bolivar Edwards, (1871 - 1933)
KEMP, Bolivar Edwards, a Representative from Louisiana; born on the Kemp
homestead near Amite, St. Helena Parish, La., December 28, 1871; was
privately tutored and also attended the public schools of Amite, La., and
the University of Louisiana at Baton Rouge; was graduated in law from Tulane
University at New Orleans in 1897; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice at Amite, La.; was active in the development of
agricultural and trucking industries and also interested in banking; member
of the board of supervisors of the University of Louisiana since 1910;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the four succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in Amite, La., on
June 19, 1933; chairman, Committee on Territories (Seventy-third Congress);
interment in Amite Cemetery.
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KIEFNER, Charles Edward, (1869 - 1942)
KIEFNER, Charles Edward, a Representative from Missouri; born in Perryville,
Perry County, Mo., November 25, 1869; attended the public schools; engaged
in the retail lumber business and also in road construction; mayor of
Perryville 1900-1902; Member of the State house of representatives
1902-1908; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912; served on
the staff of Gov. Arthur M. Hyde 1920-1924; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; elected to the
Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; resumed the lumber
and banking business in Perryville, Mo., until his death on December 13,
1942; interment in Home Cemetery.
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KIRK, Andrew Jackson, (1866 - 1933)
KIRK, Andrew Jackson, a Representative from Kentucky; born near Warfield,
Martin County, Ky., on March 19, 1866; attended the common schools; was
graduated from the law department of Valparaiso (Ind.) University in 1890;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Inez, Ky.;
county attorney of Martin County 1894-1898; Commonwealth attorney for the
twenty-fourth judicial district of Kentucky 1898-1904; circuit judge of the
same district 1904-1916; resumed the practice of law in Jenkins, Letcher
County, and in Paintsville, Johnson County, Ky., in 1918; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of John W. Langley and served from February 13, 1926, to March
3, 1927; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926; resumed the
practice of law in Paintsville, Ky.; Republican candidate for nomination as
circuit judge at the time of his death in Paintsville, Ky., May 25, 1933;
interment in Kirk Cemetery near Inez, Ky.
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LA FOLLETTE, Robert Marion, Jr., (1895 - 1953)
LA FOLLETTE, Robert Marion, Jr., (son of Robert Marion La Follette), a
Senator from Wisconsin; born in Madison, Dane County, Wis., February 6,
1895; attended the public schools of Madison and Washington, D.C.; attended
the University of Wisconsin at Madison 1913-1917; private secretary to his
father 1919-1925; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on
September 9, 1925, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father,
Robert M. La Follette; reelected as a Republican in 1928, and as a
Progressive in 1934 and 1940, and served from September 30, 1925, to January
3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for reelection as a Republican in 1946;
chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Seventy-first and Seventy-second
Congresses); a champion of organized labor, La Follette gained national
prominence between 1936 and 1940 as chairman of a special Senate
investigating committee, commonly called the La Follette Civil Liberties
Committee, which exposed techniques used to prevent workers from organizing;
author, economic-research consultant, and foreign aid advisor to the Truman
administration; died in Washington, D.C., February 24, 1953, of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison,
Wis.
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LETTS, Fred Dickinson, (1875 - 1965)
LETTS, Fred Dickinson, (cousin of Lester Jesse Dickinson), a Representative
from Iowa; born near Ainsworth, Washington County, Iowa, April 26, 1875;
attended the common schools of Washington County; was graduated from Parsons
College, Fairfield, Iowa, in 1897 and from the law department of the
University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1899; was admitted to the bar in 1899 and
commenced practice in Davenport, Iowa; appointed judge of the seventh
judicial district of Iowa on March 25, 1911, and served until December 31,
1912; elected to the same position in 1914, and served until his resignation
on February 28, 1925, having been elected to Congress; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses
(March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful for reelection in 1930 to the
Seventy-second Congress; appointed by President Hoover an associate justice
of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (now United States District
Court for the District of Columbia) May 5, 1931, and served until his
retirement May 31, 1961; died in Washington, D.C., January 19, 1965;
interment in Ainsworth Cemetery, Ainsworth, Iowa.
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LITTLE, Chauncey Bundy, (1877 - 1952)
LITTLE, Chauncey Bundy, a Representative from Kansas; born in Olathe,
Johnson County, Kans., February 10, 1877; attended the graded and high
schools and the Kansas State College at Manhattan; was graduated from the
law department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1898; was admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Olathe; city attorney of
Olathe 1901-1906; county attorney of Johnson County, Kans., 1909-1913;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3,
1927); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth
Congress; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for Governor
of Kansas in 1928; died in Olathe, Kans., September 29, 1952; interment in
Olathe Cemetery.
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MAGRADY, Frederick William, (1863 - 1954)
MAGRADY, Frederick William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near
Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa., November 24, 1863; attended the public
schools in Mount Carmel Township and was graduated from the State Normal
School (now Bloomsburg State Teachers' College) at Bloomsburg, Pa., in 1890;
taught school thirteen years in Mount Carmel Borough; engaged in the coal
business for a short time at Gauley, W.Va.; was graduated from Dickinson
School of Law, Carlisle, Pa., in 1909; was admitted to the bar the same year
and commenced practice in Mount Carmel, Pa.; director and solicitor of the
First National Bank of Mount Carmel; president and solicitor of the
Shamokin-Mount Carmel Transit Co., and of the Ashland & Shamokin Auto Bus
Co., Inc.; director of the Mount Carmel Water Co.; elected as a Republican
to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932;
resumed the practice of law; died in Danville, Pa., August 27, 1954;
interment in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Mount Carmel, Pa.
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MARTIN, Joseph William, Jr., (1884 - 1968)
MARTIN, Joseph William, Jr., a Representative from Massachusetts; born in
North Attleboro, Bristol County, Mass., November 3, 1884; attended the
public schools and was graduated from North Attleboro High School in 1902;
reporter on the Attleboro Sun and Providence Journal 1902-1908; publisher of
the Evening Chronicle at North Attleboro since 1908 and also publisher of
the Franklin (Mass.) Sentinel; member of the State house of representatives
1912-1914; served in the State senate 1914-1917; chairman of the
Massachusetts Street Railway Investigating Commission in 1917; chairman of
the Massachusetts legislative campaign committee in 1917; executive
secretary of the Republican State committee 1922-1925; delegate to the
Republican National Conventions in 1916, 1936, 1940, 1948, 1952, and 1956;
permanent chairman of the Republican National Conventions in 1940, 1944,
1948, 1952, and 1956; member of the Republican National Committee, serving
as chairman 1940-1942; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the
twenty succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1967); minority
leader in the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth,
Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses;
Speaker of the House of Representatives (Eightieth and Eighty-third
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1966; returned to
North Attleboro, Mass.; died in Hollywood, Fla., March 6, 1968; interment in
Mount Hope Cemetery, North Attleboro, Mass.
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McMASTER, William Henry, (1877 - 1968)
McMASTER, William Henry, a Senator from South Dakota; born in Ticonic,
Monona County, Iowa, May 10, 1877; attended the public schools at Sioux
City, Iowa; graduated from Beloit (Wis.) College in 1899; moved to Yankton,
Yankton County, S.Dak., in 1901 and engaged in banking; member, State house
of representatives 1911-1912; member, State senate 1913-1916; lieutenant
governor of South Dakota 1917-1920, Governor 1921-1924; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1925, to
March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930; moved to
Dixon, Ill., in 1933 and engaged in banking until his death there on
September 14, 1968; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
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McMILLAN, Thomas Sanders, (1888 - 1939)
McMILLAN, Thomas Sanders, (husband of Clara Gooding McMillan), a
Representative from South Carolina; born near Ulmers, Allendale County,
S.C., November 27, 1888; attended the common schools near Ulmers and was
graduated from Orangeburg (S.C.) Collegiate Institute in 1907; taught school
at Perry, Aiken County, S.C., in 1907 and 1908; graduated from the
University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1912; completed the law course
at the same university in 1913; was admitted to the bar in 1913 and
commenced the practice of law in Charleston, S.C.; also interested in
agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives
1917-1924, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1921 and 1922 and as speaker in
1923 and 1924; was not a candidate for renomination in 1924; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and
served from March 4, 1925, until his death; member of the executive
committee of the Interparliamentary Union 1937-1939, serving as delegate to
the convention held in Oslo, Norway, in 1939; died in Charleston, S.C.,
September 29, 1939; interment in Magnolia Cemetery.
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MENGES, Franklin, (1858 - 1956)
MENGES, Franklin, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born at Menges Mills,
York County, Pa., October 26, 1858; attended the public schools in North
Codurus Township, York County, Pa., and Baugher Academy Preparatory School,
Hanover, Pa.; was graduated from Gettysburg (Pa.) College in 1886;
instructor in chemistry and physics at that college 1886-1896; head of the
science department of York High School 1897-1903; lecturer at farmers'
institutes in Pennsylvania and other States 1898-1918; represented the
Pennsylvania State Agriculture Department at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at the World's Fair in 1904; made a soil survey of the State of
Pennsylvania; author of numerous articles on scientific agriculture; elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses
(March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930
to the Seventy-second Congress; engaged in agricultural pursuits on his farm
near York, Pa., until his retirement in 1947; moved to Arlington, Va., where
he died May 12, 1956; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa.
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MONTGOMERY, Samuel James, (1896 - 1957)
MONTGOMERY, Samuel James, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Buffalo,
Ky., December 1, 1896; moved to Oklahoma in 1902 with his parents, who
settled in Bartlesville; attended the public schools; studied law at the
University of Oklahoma at Norman; was admitted to the bar in 1919 and
commenced practice in Bartlesville; during the First World War enlisted as a
private in the Sixth Regiment, United States Marine Corps, on July 18, 1917,
and served in the Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces, until May
19, 1919, when he was honorably discharged; received the Croix de Guerre
from the Republic of France; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth
Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; practiced law in Tulsa and
later in Oklahoma City; died in Oklahoma City, Okla., June 4, 1957;
interment in Memorial Park Cemetery, Bartlesville, Okla.
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MOORE, John William, (1877 - 1941)
MOORE, John William, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Morgantown,
Butler County, Ky., June 9, 1877; attended the public schools and completed
a commercial course at Bryant and Stratton College at Louisville in 1897;
became a clerk with the Morgantown Deposit Bank in 1898; engaged in the
timber business 1899-1919; cashier for the Morgantown Deposit Bank
1920-1925; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth Congress in a special
election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States
Representative Robert Y. Thomas, Jr. and reelected to the succeeding
Congress (December 26, 1925-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection to the Seventy-first Congress in 1928; elected as a Democrat to
the Seventy-first Congress in a special election, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of United States Representative Charles W. Roark, and reelected
to the succeeding Congress (June 1, 1929-March 3, 1933); was not a candidate
for renomination to the Seventy-third Congress in 1932; resumed his former
business pursuits; employed in the Federal Housing Administration at
Washington, D.C., as an assistant comptroller 1935-1941; died in Washington,
D.C., December 11, 1941; interment in Morgantown Cemetery, Morgantown, Ky.
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NORTON, Mary Teresa, (1875 - 1959)
NORTON, Mary Teresa, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Jersey City,
N.J., March 7, 1875; attended parochial schools and the Jersey City High
School; was graduated from Packard Business College, New York City, in 1896;
president of the Queen's Daughters' Day Nursery Association of Jersey City
1916-1927; appointed to represent Hudson County on the State Democratic
committee in 1920; elected a member of that committee in 1921 and served as
vice chairman 1921-1931 and as chairman 1932-1935; also served as vice
chairman of the Hudson County Democratic Committee; elected county
freeholder in 1922; delegate at large to the Democratic National Conventions
in 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, and 1948; delegate to International
Labor Conference at Paris, France, in 1945; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-ninth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January
3, 1951); chairwoman, Committee on District of Columbia (Seventy-second
through Seventy-fifth Congresses), Committee on Labor (Seventy-fifth through
Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Memorials (Seventy-seventh
Congress), Committee on House Administration (Eighty-first Congress); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1950; consultant, Women's Advisory
Committee on Defense Manpower, Department of Labor, 1951 and 1952; died in
Greenwich, Conn., August 2, 1959; interment in Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey
City, N.J.
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NYE, Gerald Prentice, (1892 - 1971)
NYE, Gerald Prentice, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Hortonville,
Outagamie County, Wis., December 19, 1892; attended the public schools;
engaged in newspaper work in Wisconsin and Iowa; moved to North Dakota in
1915; publisher of the Billings County Pioneer, and later editor and
publisher of the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier; unsuccessful candidate in
1924 for election to the Sixty-ninth Congress; appointed on November 14,
1925, and subsequently elected on June 30, 1926, as a Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edwin F.
Ladd; reelected in 1926, 1932, and again in 1938 and served from November
14, 1925, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944;
chairman, Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventieth through
Seventy-second Congresses), Special Committee on Investigation of the
Munitions Industry (1934-1938); president of Records Engineering, Inc.,
Washington, D.C., 1937-1959; special assistant for elderly housing, Federal
Housing Administration 1960-1964; member of staff, Senate Committee on Aging
1964-1968; associate in firm of Hurley, Clark and Associates, 1964-1971; was
a resident of Chevy Chase, Md., until his death on July 17, 1971, in
Washington, D.C.; interment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
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PINE, William Bliss, (1877 - 1942)
PINE, William Bliss, a Senator from Oklahoma; born in Bluffs, Scott County,
Ill., December 30, 1877; attended the public schools; taught school three
years; employed as a salesman of harvesters; moved to Chanute, Kans., and
was employed in the oil producing business, moved to Oklahoma in 1904 and
continued in the oil industry; in 1909 located in Okmulgee, Okla., where he
eventually became extensively engaged in the production of oil; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1925, to
March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930; resumed his
former business pursuits; unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1934; died
in Okmulgee, Okla., August 25, 1942; was the Republican nominee for the
United States Senate at the time of his death; interment in Okmulgee
Cemetery.
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PRATT, Harcourt Joseph, (1866 - 1934)
PRATT, Harcourt Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in Highland,
Ulster County, N.Y., October 23, 1866; attended the public schools and
Claverack Academy at Claverack, N.Y.; engaged in the lumber and coal
business; also interested in banking; member of the Board of Supervisors of
Ulster County 1895-1897; member of the State assembly in 1897; director of
the First National Bank of Highland since 1900 and of the Kingston Trust Co.
since 1921; was president of the Board of Education of Highland, N.Y.,
1908-1926; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1932; resumed his former business interests; died from
injuries received in an automobile accident near Highland, N.Y., May 21,
1934; interment in Highland Cemetery.
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ROBINSON, Arthur Raymond, (1881 - 1961)
ROBINSON, Arthur Raymond, a Senator from Indiana; born in Pickerington,
Fairfield County, Ohio, on March 12, 1881; attended the common schools;
graduated from the Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1901, the Indiana Law
School at Indianapolis in 1910, and the University of Chicago, Chicago,
Ill., in 1913; admitted to the bar in 1910 and commenced practice in
Indianapolis, Ind.; member, State senate 1914-1918, and was the Republican
floor leader during the entire period; during the First World War served in
the army as a first lieutenant, captain, and major; served in France in the
Army of Occupation; resumed the practice of law; judge of Marion County
Superior Court 1921-1922; resumed the practice of law in Indianapolis, Ind.,
in 1922; appointed on October 20, 1925, as a Republican to the United States
Senate and subsequently elected on November 2, 1926, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Samuel M. Ralston; reelected in 1928, and served from
October 20, 1925, to January 3, 1935; was an unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1934; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Seventieth through
Seventy-second Congresses); practiced law in Indianapolis, Ind., until his
death there March 17, 1961; interment in Washington Park Cemetery East.
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ROGERS, Edith Nourse, (1881 - 1960)
ROGERS, Edith Nourse, (wife of John Jacob Rogers), a Representative from
Massachusetts; born in Saco, York County, Maine, March 19, 1881; graduated
from the Rogers Hall School, Lowell, Mass.; graduated from Madame Julien's
School, Paris, France; volunteered, American Red Cross, 1917-1922;
Presidential inspector of veterans' hospitals, 1922-1923; president, board
of trustees, Rogers Hall School, Lowell, Mass.; elected as a Republican to
the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her
husband, United States Representative John Jacob Rogers; reelected to the
Seventieth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (June 30, 1925-September
10, 1960); chair, Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Eightieth and Eighty-third
Congresses); died on September 10, 1960, in Boston, Mass.; interment in
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
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ROWBOTTOM, Harry Emerson, (1884 - 1934)
ROWBOTTOM, Harry Emerson, a Representative from Indiana; born in Aurora,
Dearborn County, Ind., November 3, 1884; moved with his parents to Ludlow,
Ky., in 1885; attended the common schools; was graduated from Ludlow High
School in 1901; attended Kentucky State College at Lexington 1902-1904;
salesman of lubricating oils 1904-1907; attended the Cincinnati Business
College and was graduated in accountancy in 1907; engaged as an auditor in
Cincinnati 1907-1910 and in Chicago 1910-1912; moved to Evansville, Ind., in
1913 and was employed as chief clerk for the Indiana Refining Co. 1913-1918;
member of the Indiana State house of representatives 1919-1923; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses
(March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful for reelection in 1930 to the
Seventy-second Congress; engaged as commercial agent for a truck line; died
in Evansville, Ind., March 22, 1934; interment in Locust Hill Cemetery.
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RUTHERFORD, Samuel, (1870 - 1932)
RUTHERFORD, Samuel, a Representative from Georgia; born near Culloden,
Crawford County, Ga., March 15, 1870; attended the public schools at
Culloden and Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; was graduated
from the law department of the University of Georgia at Athens in 1894; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Forsyth, Monroe
County, Ga.; mayor of Forsyth for three consecutive years; member of the
State house of representatives in 1896 and 1897; solicitor of the city court
of Forsyth 1898-1900; interested in banking 1901-1916; served in the State
senate in 1909 and 1910; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in
agricultural pursuits; again a member of the State house of representatives
1921-1924; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the three
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in
Washington, D.C., on February 4, 1932; chairman, Committee on Election of
President, Vice President, and Representatives (Seventy-second Congress);
interment in Oakland Cemetery, Forsyth, Ga.
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SACKETT, Frederic Mosley, (1868 - 1941)
SACKETT, Frederic Mosley, a Senator from Kentucky; born in Providence, R.I.,
December 17, 1868; attended the public schools; graduated from Brown
University at Providence in 1890 and from the law department of Harvard
University in 1893; admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in
Columbus, Ohio, the same year; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1897, to
Louisville, Ky., in 1898, and continued the practice of his profession until
1907; was also interested in the mining of coal and the manufacture of
cement; president of the Louisville Gas Co. and of the Louisville Lighting
Co. 1907-1912; member of the Board of Trade of Louisville, serving as
president in 1917, 1922, and 1923; director of the Louisville Branch of the
Federal Reserve Bank 1917-1924; during the First World War served as federal
food administrator for Kentucky 1917-1919; member of the Kentucky State
Board of Charities and Corrections 1919-1924; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate in 1924 and served from March 4, 1925, to January 9,
1930, when he resigned, having been appointed Ambassador to Germany by
President Herbert Hoover, in which capacity he served from 1930 to 1933,
when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in Executive
Departments (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses); resumed his former
business activities; died on May 18, 1941, in Baltimore, Md.; interment in
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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SOMERS, Andrew Lawrence, (1895 - 1949)
SOMERS, Andrew Lawrence, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn,
N.Y., March 21, 1895; attended St. Teresa's Academy in Brooklyn, Brooklyn
College Preparatory School, Manhattan College, and New York University in
New York City; engaged in dry color and chemical business; during the First
World War enlisted on July 18, 1917, as a hospital apprentice, second class,
United States Naval Reserve Force; subsequently served as ensign in the
Naval Reserve Flying Corps and was then appointed a naval aviator on
September 17, 1918; proceeded to foreign service on September 30, 1918, and
served until honorably discharged March 4, 1919; delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1928; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to
the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his
death in St. Albans, Long Island, N.Y., April 6, 1949; chairman, Committee
on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (Seventy-second through Seventy-eighth
Congresses), Committee on Mines and Mining (Seventy-ninth Congress),
Committee on Public Lands (Eighty-first Congress); interment in Holy Cross
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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SOSNOWSKI, John Bartholomew, (1883 - 1968)
SOSNOWSKI, John Bartholomew, a Representative from Michigan; born in
Detroit, Mich., December 8, 1883; attended the parochial and Army schools;
during the Spanish-American War enlisted as a private in the Seventh
Regiment, United States Cavalry, and served in Cuba and the Philippine
Islands; after the close of the war continued in the service and was on
detached duty at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.; was
honorably discharged on December 26, 1906; returned to Detroit, Mich., and
engaged in the real estate and brokerage business; captain and adjutant in
the Thirty-first Regiment, Infantry, National Guard of Michigan, from 1909
to 1916, with service on the Mexican border in 1916; member and chairman of
the board of water commissioners of the city of Detroit 1918-1924; elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926; resumed the real estate and
brokerage business in Detroit, Mich.; delegate to the Republican National
Conventions in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944; unsuccessful candidate for
election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress, in 1944 to the
Seventy-ninth Congress, and in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; hearing
examiner, Michigan Liquor Control Commission, 1947-1951; died in Detroit,
Mich., July 16, 1968; interment in Sweetest Heart of Mary Cemetery.
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DGH
STECK, Daniel Frederic, (1881 - 1950)
STECK, Daniel Frederic, a Senator from Iowa; born in Ottumwa, Wapello
County, Iowa, December 16, 1881; attended the common schools; graduated from
the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1906; admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Ottumwa; during the First
World War, served in France as a captain; resumed the practice of law in
Ottumwa; successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Smith W.
Brookhart to the United States Senate and served from April 12, 1926, to
March 3, 1931; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930; resumed
the practice of his profession; special assistant to the United States
Attorney General 1933-1947; retired; died in Ottumwa, Iowa, December 31,
1950; interment in Ottumwa Cemetery.
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STEWART, David Wallace, (1887 - 1974)
STEWART, David Wallace, a Senator from Iowa; born in New Concord, Muskingum
County, Ohio, January 22, 1887; attended the common schools; graduated from
Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa., in 1911; high school teacher and athletic
coach 1911-1914; graduated from the law department of the University of
Chicago in 1917; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Sioux City, Iowa; during the First World War served overseas as a first
sergeant 1918-1919; discharged; resumed the practice of law in Sioux City,
Iowa; president of the Sioux City Chamber of Commerce in 1925; appointed
August 7, 1926, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Albert B. Cummins, and was subsequently
elected November 2, 1926, to complete the unexpired term ending March 3,
1927, and served from August 7, 1926, until March 3, 1927; was not a
candidate for renomination in 1926; resumed the practice of law; president
of the board of trustees of Morningside College 1938-1962; died in Sioux
City, Iowa, February 10, 1974; interment in Logan Park Cemetery.
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STOBBS, George Russell, (1877 - 1966)
STOBBS, George Russell, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in
Webster, Worcester County, Mass., February 7, 1877; attended the public
schools of Webster, and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; was graduated
from Harvard University, in 1899 and from its law department in 1902; was
admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Worcester, Mass.;
special justice for the central district court of Worcester 1909-1916;
captain in the State Guard of Massachusetts 1917-1920; assistant district
attorney for the middle district of Massachusetts 1917-1921; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses
(March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for renomination in 1930;
one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1926 to
conduct the impeachment proceedings against George W. English, judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois; major and
subsequently lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Department,
Officers' Reserve Corps, 1927-1942; delegate to the Interparliamentary
Congress, London, England, in 1930; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1932, and to the Republican State conventions in 1940 and
1942; resumed the practice of law in Worcester, Mass.; died in Worcester,
Mass., December 23, 1966; interment in Rural Cemetery.
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STROTHER, James French, (1868 - 1930)
STROTHER, James French, (grandson of James French Strother [1811-1860] and
great-grandson of George French Strother), a Representative from West
Virginia; born near Pearisburg, Giles County, Va., June 29, 1868; attended
the public schools, Pearisburg Academy, and Virginia Agricultural and
Mechanical College at Blacksburg; deputy collector of internal revenue at
Lynchburg, Va., 1890-1893; studied law at the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in
Pearisburg; settled in Welch, McDowell County, W.Va., in 1895 and continued
the practice of law; United States commissioner 1897-1901; appointed judge
of the criminal court of McDowell County by Gov. Albert B. White on January
1, 1905; was thrice elected and served until September 30, 1924, when he
resigned, having been nominated for Congress; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1928; died in Welch, W.Va., April 10, 1930;
interment in Monte Vista Cemetery, Bluefield, W.Va.
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SWARTZ, Joshua William, (1867 - 1959)
SWARTZ, Joshua William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Lower
Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pa., June 9, 1867; raised on his father's
farm; attended the rural schools, Lebanon Valley College, and Williamsport
Commercial School; was graduated from the law department of Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1892; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Harrisburg, Pa.; member of the State house of
representatives 1915-1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth
Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); declined to become a candidate for
reelection in 1926; resumed the practice of law until his death in
Harrisburg, Pa., May 27, 1959; interment in Paxtang Cemetery, Paxtang, Pa.
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TAYLOR, Herbert Worthington, (1869 - 1931)
TAYLOR, Herbert Worthington, a Representative from New Jersey; born in
Belleville, Essex County, N.J., February 19, 1869; attended the public
schools, and was graduated from the law school of the University of New
York, New York City, in 1891; was admitted to the New York bar the same year
and to the New Jersey bar in 1897, and practiced in New York City and
Newark, N.J.; member of the common council of Newark 1899-1903; member of
the State assembly in 1904 and 1905; chairman of the Essex County Republican
committee 1913-1917; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916;
county counsel of Essex County 1916-1921; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1922; resumed the practice of law in Newark, N.J.;
elected to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926; resumed the practice of law
in Newark, N.J., where he died on October 15, 1931; interment in East
Ridgelawn Cemetery, Delawanna, N.J.
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THAYER, Harry Irving, (1869 - 1926)
THAYER, Harry Irving, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Pembroke,
Plymouth County, Mass., September 10, 1869; attended the public schools of
Hanover, Mass.; engaged in the leather business; organizer and president of
the Thayer-Ross Co.; president of the New England Shoe and Leather
Association 1916-1921; was president of the Tanners' Council of the United
States in 1920 and 1921; was a delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1924; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and
served from March 4, 1925, until his death in Wakefield, Middlesex County,
Mass., March 10, 1926; interment in Lakeside Cemetery.
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THURSTON, Lloyd, (1880 - 1970)
THURSTON, Lloyd, a Representative from Iowa; born in Osceola, Clarke County,
Iowa, March 27, 1880; attended the public schools; during the
Spanish-American War enlisted on June 13, 1898, as a private in Company I,
Fifty-first Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served with this company
during the Philippine Insurrection, and was honorably discharged on November
2, 1899; was graduated from the law department of the University of Iowa at
Iowa City in 1902; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Osceola, Clarke County, Iowa; captain in the National Guard of
Iowa 1902-1906; prosecuting attorney of Clarke County 1906-1910; during the
First World War served with the rank of captain in Company C, Twenty-sixth
Battalion, United States Guards, at Fort Crook, Nebr.; member of the State
senate 1920-1924; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the six
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1938, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the
Republican nomination for United States Senator; resumed the practice of law
in Osceola, Iowa; died in Des Moines, Iowa, May 7, 1970; interment in Maple
Hill Cemetery, Osceola, Iowa.
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TOLLEY, Harold Sumner, (1894 - 1956)
TOLLEY, Harold Sumner, a Representative from New York; born in Honesdale,
Wayne County, Pa., January 16, 1894; moved with his parents to Binghamton,
N.Y., in 1903; attended the public schools; was graduated from Syracuse
University, New York, in 1916; studied for the ministry and took a
postgraduate course at Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N.J.; director of
religious education at the Metropolitan (Methodist Episcopal) Temple, New
York City, in 1916 and 1917; abandoned the ministry to enlist in the
military forces of the United States during the First World War and served
from May 13, 1917, to July 25, 1919, attaining the rank of captain of
Infantry; was commissioned a captain in the United States Officers' Reserve
Corps; engaged in the retail shoe business; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1926; delegate to the Republican State convention in
1926; resumed his former business pursuits; commissioner of public welfare,
city of Binghamton, from January 1932 to April 1937; in 1937 was appointed
area director for New York State Department of Social Welfare, assigned to
the western New York area, and served until his death; died in Kenmore,
N.Y., May 20, 1956; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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TYSON, Lawrence Davis, (1861 - 1929)
TYSON, Lawrence Davis, a Senator from Tennessee; born on a farm near
Greenville, Pitt County, N.C., July 4, 1861; attended the county schools and
Greenville Academy, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at
West Point in 1883; took part in campaigns against the Apache Indians;
professor of military science and tactics in the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville 1891-1895, and graduated in law from that university in 1894;
resigned his commission, was admitted to the bar in 1894, and commenced
practice in Knoxville; volunteered in 1898 for service during the
Spanish-American War, and was appointed colonel of the Sixth Regiment,
United States Volunteer Infantry, which he recruited, trained, and took to
Puerto Rico; was mustered out in 1899; engaged in the practice of law at
Knoxville and later in manufacturing; brigadier general and inspector
general of the National Guard of Tennessee 1902-1908; member, State house of
representatives and served as speaker 1903-1905; was an unsuccessful
candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1913; volunteered for
service at the outbreak of the First World War and was commissioned
brigadier general in command of all National Guard troops of Tennessee;
later commissioned by President Woodrow Wilson as a brigadier general and
assigned to the Fifty-ninth Brigade, Thirtieth Division; trained troops at
Camp Sevier, Greenville, S.C.; fought in France and Belgium and was
discharged in 1919; resumed newspaper pursuits; was an unsuccessful
candidate for the Democratic nomination for Vice President in 1920; elected
as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1925,
until his death in a sanitarium at Strafford, Pa., on August 24, 1929;
interment in Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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UPDIKE, Ralph Eugene, (1894 - 1953)
UPDIKE, Ralph Eugene, a Representative from Indiana; born in Brookville,
Franklin County, Ind., May 27, 1894; attended the public schools of Whitcomb
and Brookville, Dodds Army and Navy Academy, Washington, D.C., Columbia
University, New York City, and Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.; during
the First World War served overseas as a sergeant with the Seventy-fourth
Company, Sixth Regiment, Second Division, United States Marines, 1916-1919;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1920; was graduated from the law
department of Indiana University in 1923 and commenced practice in
Indianapolis, Ind.; member of the State house of representatives 1923-1925;
special judge of the city of Indianapolis in 1923 and 1924; special judge of
the superior court of Marion County in 1925 and 1926; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1925-March
3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first
Congress; special attorney in the Bureau of Internal Revenue 1929-1933;
resumed the practice of law in Indianapolis, Ind., and Washington, D.C.,
until March 2, 1942, when he was commissioned a captain in the United States
Marine Corps Reserve; served overseas in the South Pacific with the First
Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, and was inactivated June 15, 1945;
resumed the practice of law in Indianapolis, Ind., and Washington, D.C.,
until his retirement; died in Arlington, Va., September 16, 1953; interment
in Arlington National Cemetery.
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WARREN, Lindsay Carter, (1889 - 1976)
WARREN, Lindsay Carter, a Representative from North Carolina; born in
Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., December 16, 1889; pursued preparatory
studies at Bingham School, Asheville, N.C., 1903-1906; attended the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1906-1908; studied law at the
same university in 1911 and 1912; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and
commenced practice in Washington, N.C.; attorney of Beaufort County
1912-1925; chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Beaufort County
1912-1925; member of the State senate in 1917, 1919, 1959, and 1961, serving
as president pro tempore in 1919; member of the State code commission for
compiling the consolidated statutes in 1919; chairman of the special
legislative committee in 1920 on workmen's compensation acts; member of the
State house of representatives in 1923; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-ninth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,
1925, until his resignation on October 31, 1940; chairman, Committee on
Accounts (Seventy-second through Seventy-sixth Congresses); appointed
Comptroller General of the United States for a fifteen-year term, serving
from November 1, 1940, until his retirement on May 1, 1954; had been
renominated to the Seventy-seventh Congress, but later withdrew; delegate to
Democratic National Conventions in 1932 and 1940; chairman of the Democratic
State conventions in 1930, 1934, and temporary chairman and keynoter in
1938; died in Washington, N.C., December 28, 1976; interment in Oakdale
Cemetery.
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WELCH, Richard Joseph, (1869 - 1949)
WELCH, Richard Joseph, a Representative from California; born in Monroe
County, N.Y., February 13, 1869; educated in the public schools; moved to
California in early boyhood and settled in San Francisco; served in the
State senate 1901-1913; harbor master for the port of San Francisco
1903-1907; supervisor of the city and county of San Francisco from 1916
until September 30, 1926, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Lawrence J. Flaherty; reelected to the Seventieth and
to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from August 31, 1926, until
his death in a hospital in Needles, Calif., September 10, 1949; chairman,
Committee on Labor (Seventy-first Congress), Committee on Public Lands
(Eightieth Congress); interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, San Francisco,
Calif.
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WHITEHEAD, Joseph, (1867 - 1938)
WHITEHEAD, Joseph, a Representative from Virginia; born near Mount Airy,
Pittsylvania County, Va., October 31, 1867; attended the public schools of
his native city; was graduated from the academic department of Richmond
College (now the University of Richmond), Richmond, Va., in 1889, and from
the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1892;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in
Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Va.; served in the State senate 1899-1904;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first
Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1930; resumed the practice of his chosen profession until
his death at Chatham, Va., on July 8, 1938; interment in Chatham Cemetery.
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WHITTINGTON, William Madison, (1878 - 1962)
WHITTINGTON, William Madison, a Representative from Mississippi; born in
Little Springs, Franklin County, Miss., May 4, 1878; attended the public
schools of Franklin County; was graduated from Mississippi College at
Clinton in 1898 and from the law department of the University of Mississippi
at Oxford in 1899; was admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in
Roxie, Franklin County, Miss., January 1, 1901; in January 1904 moved to
Greenwood, Miss., where he continued the practice of law and also engaged in
agricultural pursuits; member of the city council, Greenwood, Miss., from
January 1, 1907, to January 1, 1911; member of the State senate from January
1, 1916, to January 1, 1920; reelected in 1923 for a four-year term and
served from January 1 to August 16, 1924, when he resigned to accept the
Democratic nomination for Representative in Congress; delegate to the
Democratic National Conventions in 1920, 1928, 1936, 1940, and 1948; elected
as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1925-January 3, 1951); chairman, Committee on Flood Control
(Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Public Works
(Eighty-first Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1950;
resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Greenwood, Miss., until his
death August 20, 1962; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
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DGH
WILLIAMS, George Howard, (1871 - 1963)
WILLIAMS, George Howard, a Senator from Missouri; born in California,
Moniteau County, Mo., on December 1, 1871; attended the public schools;
graduated from the preparatory department of Drury College, Springfield,
Mo., in 1890, from Princeton University in 1894, and from the Washington
University Law School, St. Louis, Mo., in 1897; admitted to the bar in 1897
and commenced practice in St. Louis; judge of the circuit court of the city
of St. Louis 1906-1912; delegate at large to the Missouri constitutional
convention in 1922 and 1923; appointed on May 25, 1925, as a Republican to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Selden
P. Spencer and served from May 25, 1925, to December 5, 1926, when a duly
elected successor qualified; was an unsuccessful candidate for election to
fill the vacancy in 1926; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the
Contingent Expenses (Thirty-ninth Congress), Committee on Private Land
Claims (Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses); resumed the practice of law in
St. Louis until 1943, when he retired and moved to Sarasota, Fla., where he
died November 25, 1963; interment in Masonic Cemetery, California, Mo.
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WOLVERTON, John Marshall, (1872 - 1944)
WOLVERTON, John Marshall, a Representative from West Virginia; born in Big
Bend, Calhoun County, W.Va., January 31, 1872; attended country schools and
Glenville and Fairmont State Normal Schools; was graduated from the law
department of the West Virginia University at Morgantown in 1901; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Grantsville,
Calhoun County, W.Va.; moved to Richwood in 1904; mayor of Richwood in 1918
and 1919; prosecuting attorney of Nicholas County 1913-1917 and 1921-1925;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3,
1927); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth
Congress; elected to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3,
1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second
Congress, and for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and in 1936
to the Seventy-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Richwood,
W.Va., where he died August 19, 1944; interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
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Chris
"DGH" <peri...@eudoramail.com> wrote in message
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member of it to check out was Sen Jesse Helms . But nooooooooo!!!