Obituaries From Representatives and Senators (And Delegates) Whose First Service Was In The 66th Congress
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Obituaries From Representatives and Senators (And Delegates) Whose
First Service Was In The 66th Congress
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ACKERMAN, Ernest Robinson, (1863 - 1931)
ACKERMAN, Ernest Robinson, a Representative from New Jersey; born in
New York City, N.Y., June 17, 1863; moved with his parents to
Plainfield, N.J., very shortly thereafter; educated at public and
private schools and was graduated from the Plainfield High School in
1880; engaged in cement manufacturing; member of the common council of
Plainfield, N.J., in 1891 and 1892; member of the State senate
1905-1911, serving as president in 1911; delegate to the Republican
National Conventions at Chicago in 1908 and in 1916; member of the
board of trustees of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., 1916-1920;
Federal food administrator for Union County during the First World War;
member of the State board of education 1918-1920; member of the New
Jersey Geological Survey and associate of the American Society of Civil
Engineers; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death in
Plainfield, N.J., October 18, 1931; interment in the family plot,
Hillside Cemetery.
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ANDREWS, William Ezekiel, (1854 - 1942)
ANDREWS, William Ezekiel, a Representative from Nebraska; born near
Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa, December 17, 1854; became an orphan in
early youth; worked as a farm hand, and attended the country schools in
the winter; was graduated from Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, in
1874, and from Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, in 1875; was elected
superintendent of schools of Ringgold County in 1879; member of the
faculty of Hastings (Nebr.) College from January 1, 1885, to January 1,
1893; elected vice president of Hastings College in 1889 and president
of the Nebraska State Teachers' Association in 1890; served as private
secretary to the Governor of Nebraska in 1893 and 1894; was an
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third
Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March
4, 1895-March 3, 1897); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; auditor for the Treasury Department,
Washington, D.C., 1897-1915; elected to the Sixty-sixth and
Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); chairman,
Committee on the Election of President, Vice President, and
Representatives (Sixty-seventh Congress); was an unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; lived in
Washington, D.C., until his death there on January 19, 1942; interment
in Parkview Cemetery, Hastings, Nebr.
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ANDREWS, William Noble, (1876 - 1937)
ANDREWS, William Noble, a Representative from Maryland; born in
Hurlock, Dorchester County, Md., November 13, 1876; attended the public
schools of the county and Dixon College; was graduated from Wesley
Collegiate Institute, Dover, Del., in 1898 and from the law department
of the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1903; was admitted to the
bar in 1903 and commenced the practice of law in Cambridge, Md.; served
as State attorney for Dorchester County from 1904 to 1911; member of
the State house of delegates in 1914; served in the State senate from
1918 until 1919, when he resigned to enter Congress; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh
Congress; resumed the practice of law in Cambridge, Md., until his
death there on December 27, 1937; interment in Washington Cemetery,
Hurlock, Md.
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BABKA, John Joseph, (1884 - 1937)
BABKA, John Joseph, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cleveland,
Ohio, March 16, 1884; attended the public schools; was graduated from
the Cleveland Law School in 1908; was admitted to the bar the same year
and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio; special counsel to the
attorney general of Ohio in 1911 and 1912; assistant prosecuting
attorney of Cuyahoga County 1912-1919; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed
the practice of law; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in
1920 and 1932; at the time of his death was acting as liquidating
attorney for the division of savings and loan associations of the
department of commerce of Ohio; died at Cleveland, Ohio, March 22,
1937; interment in Calvary Cemetery.
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BARBOUR, Henry Ellsworth, (1877 - 1945)
BARBOUR, Henry Ellsworth, a Representative from California; born in
Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., March 8, 1877; attended the
public schools of his native city, the local Free Academy at
Ogdensburg, Union College at Schenectady, N.Y., and the law department
of George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; was admitted to the
New York bar in 1901; moved to Fresno, Fresno County, Calif., in 1902
and engaged in the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March
3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the
Seventy-third Congress; resumed the practice of his profession in
Fresno, Calif., where he died on March 21, 1945; interment in Belmont
Memorial Cemetery.
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BEE, Carlos, (1867 - 1932)
BEE, Carlos, (great-grandson of Thomas Bee), a Representative from
Texas; born in Saltillo, Mexico, July 8, 1867, where his parents had
moved after the collapse of the Confederacy; returned with his parents
to San Antonio, Tex., in 1874; attended the public schools and the
Agricultural and Mechanical College; studied law while working as a
railway mail clerk; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced
practice in San Antonio, Tex.; United States commissioner for the
western district of Texas in 1893; district attorney of the
thirty-seventh judicial district 1898-1905; chairman of the Democratic
State convention in 1904; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1904 and 1908; served as a member of the city school
board of San Antonio 1906-1908; president of the county school board of
Bexar County, Tex., 1912-1914; member of the State senate 1915-1919;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March
3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the
Sixty-seventh Congress; engaged in the practice of law in San Antonio,
Tex., until his death there on April 20, 1932; interment in the
Confederate Cemetery.
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BEGG, James Thomas, (1877 - 1963)
BEGG, James Thomas, a Representative from Ohio; born on a farm near
Lima, Allen County, Ohio, February 16, 1877; attended the public and
high schools of Columbus Grove, and Lima (Ohio) College; was graduated
from the Wooster (Ohio) University in 1903; taught school;
superintendent of public schools at Columbus Grove 1905-1910, at
Ironton, Ohio, 1910-1913, and at Sandusky, Ohio, 1913-1917; employed as
a campaign director and lectured throughout the United States for the
American City Bureau of New York in chamber-of-commerce work 1917-1919;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1929); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; engaged in the
banking business; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1942 to the
Seventy-eighth Congress; business consultant and dairy farmer; moved to
Oklahoma City, Okla., in 1959, where he resided until his death March
26, 1963; interment in Garfield-Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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BENHAM, John Samuel, (1863 - 1935)
BENHAM, John Samuel, a Representative from Indiana; born on a farm near
Benham, Ripley County, Ind., October 24, 1863; attended the public
schools, a business college in Delaware, Ohio, and a normal school in
Brookville, Ind.; taught school in the winter and attended college in
the summer, being engaged as a teacher in various places in Indiana
from 1882 to 1907; was graduated from Indiana State Normal School at
Terre Haute, Ind., in 1893 and from Indiana University at Bloomington,
Ind., in 1903; specialized in history at the University of Chicago for
several terms; superintendent of schools for Ripley County for fourteen
years; returned to Benham, Ind., in 1907 and engaged in the timber,
milling, and contracting business; also followed agricultural pursuits;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public
Buildings (Sixty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; moved to Batesville,
Ripley County, Ind., in 1923 and engaged as a building contractor;
again superintendent of schools for Ripley County, Ind., 1924-1929;
retired from active business pursuits in 1931 and resided in
Batesville, Ind., until his death there on December 11, 1935; interment
in Benham Church Cemetery, near Benham, Ind.
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BLAND, William Thomas, (1861 - 1928)
BLAND, William Thomas, (grandson of John George Jackson and cousin of
James Monroe Jackson), a Representative from Missouri; born in Weston,
Lewis County, Va. (now West Virginia), January 21, 1861; was graduated
from the University of West Virginia at Morgantown in 1883 and from the
law department of that university in 1884; took a special course in law
at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1885; was admitted
to the bar and commenced practice in Weston, W.Va.; moved to Atchison,
Kans., in 1887; prosecuting attorney of Atchison County, Kans.,
1890-1892; mayor of Atchison in 1894; elected judge of the second
Kansas district in 1896; reelected in 1900, and served until 1901, when
he resigned; entered the wholesale drug business in 1901; moved to
Kansas City, Mo., in 1904 and continued in business until 1917 when he
engaged in banking; chairman of the Kansas City River and Harbor
Improvement Commission 1909-1918; director of the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress; vice president of the Mississippi Valley Waterway
Association; elected to the Kansas City Board of Education in 1912 for
a six-year term and served as vice president and president; elected as
a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh
Congress, moved to Florida and settled in Orlando in 1921; engaged in
banking; served as a member of the Orlando Utilities Commission for
three years; died in Orlando, Orange County, Fla., January 15, 1928;
interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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BOIES, William Dayton, (1857 - 1932)
BOIES, William Dayton, a Representative from Iowa; born on a farm in
Boone County, Ill., January 3, 1857; moved with his parents to Buchanan
County, Iowa, in 1873 and settled near Quasqueton; attended country
schools and the public schools of Belvidere, Ill.; was graduated in law
from the State University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1880; was admitted to
the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Sanborn, O'Brien County,
Iowa; moved to Sheldon, Iowa, in 1887 and continued the practice of
law; unsuccessful candidate for election as judge of the district court
in 1890; member of the school board of the independent school district
of Sheldon 1900-1912; appointed judge of the district court of the
fourth judicial district of Iowa January 1, 1913; on a division of this
district became judge of the twenty-first judicial district of the
State and in 1914 was elected for a term of four years, which position
he resigned on March 31, 1918, to become a candidate for the Republican
nomination for Congress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and
to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1929); 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;
was not a candidate for renomination in 1928; died in Sheldon, Iowa,
May 31, 1932; interment in Eastlawn Cemetery.
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BOWLING, William Bismarck, (1870 - 1946)
BOWLING, William Bismarck, a Representative from Alabama; born near
Iron City, Calhoun County, Ala., September 24, 1870; attended the
common schools, and was graduated from the State normal school,
Jacksonville, Ala., in 1892; taught in the public schools of
Montgomery, Ala., 1893-1895 and of Columbus, Ga., 1896-1899; moved to
Lafayette, Chambers County, Ala.; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1900 and commenced practice in Lafayette; solicitor of the fifth
judicial circuit of Alabama 1905-1920; member of the board of trustees
of Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn; elected as a Democrat to
the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of J. Thomas Heflin; reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to the three
succeeding Congresses and served from December 14, 1920, until his
resignation effective August 16, 1928, having been appointed judge for
the fifth judicial circuit of Alabama, in which capacity he served
until his death; died in Lafayette, Ala., on December 27, 1946;
interment in Lafayette Cemetery.
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BOX, John Calvin, (1871 - 1941)
BOX, John Calvin, a Representative from Texas; born near Crockett,
Houston County, Tex., March 28, 1871; attended the country schools, and
Alexander Collegiate Institute (later Lon Morris College), Kilgore,
Tex.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced
practice in Lufkin, Tex.; moved to Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Tex.,
in 1897 and continued the practice of his profession; also a licensed
Methodist minister; judge of the Cherokee County Court 1898-1901; mayor
of Jacksonville 1902-1905; member of the Democratic State committee
1908-1910; member of the board of education and served as chairman
1913-1918; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the five
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1930; resumed the practice of law in
Jacksonville, Tex., until his death there May 17, 1941; interment in
the City Cemetery.
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BRIGGS, Clay Stone, (1876 - 1933)
BRIGGS, Clay Stone, a Representative from Texas; born in Galveston,
Tex., January 8, 1876; attended private and public schools, the
University of Texas at Austin, and Harvard Unversity; was graduated
from the law department of Yale University in 1899; was admitted to the
bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in Galveston, Tex.;
member of the State house of representatives 1906-1908; served as judge
of the tenth judicial district of Texas from June 15, 1909, until
February 1, 1919, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the seven succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death in
Washington, D.C., April 29, 1933; interment in Oakwood Cemetery,
Syracuse, N.Y.
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BRINSON, Samuel Mitchell, (1870 - 1922)
BRINSON, Samuel Mitchell, a Representative from North Carolina; born in
New Bern, Craven County, N.C., March 20, 1870; attended private and
public schools, and was graduated from Wake Forest College, North
Carolina, in 1891; taught school in New Bern one year; was graduated
from the law department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in 1895; was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1896 and
commenced the practice of law in New Bern, N.C.; served as county
superintendent of public instruction in Craven County 1902-1919;
president of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad Company in 1918;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses
and served from March 4, 1919, until his death in New Bern, N.C., April
13, 1922; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery.
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BROOKS, Edward Schroeder, (1867 - 1957)
BROOKS, Edward Schroeder, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
York, Pa., June 14, 1867; attended the public schools, York County
Academy, York, Pa., and York (Pa.) Collegiate Institute; engaged as a
banker, manufacturer of steel forgings, and as a contractor; member of
the city council 1897-1902; treasurer of York County 1903-1905; member
of the Republican State committee in 1917 and 1918; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1923); was not a candidate for renomination in 1922;
acting postmaster of York, Pa., from September 30, 1925, until February
23, 1926, and postmaster 1926-1931; engaged in the clothing business
from 1937 until his retirement; died in York, Pa., July 12, 1957;
interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
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BROOKS, Edwin Bruce, (1868 - 1933)
BROOKS, Edwin Bruce, (cousin of Edmund Howard Hinshaw), a
Representative from Illinois; born in Newton, Jasper County, Ill.,
September 20, 1868; attended the public schools, and was graduated from
Valparaiso (Ind.) University in 1892; superintendent of schools at
Newman 1894-1897, at Newton 1897-1903, at Greenville 1903-1905, and at
Paris 1905-1912; engaged in banking at Newton, Ill., 1912-1914; county
superintendent of schools of Jasper County 1914-1918; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to
the Sixty-eighth Congress; superintendent of charities for the State of
Illinois in 1924-1930; assistant attorney general 1930-1932; died in
Newton, Ill., September 18, 1933; interment in River Side Cemetery.
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BURDICK, Clark, (1868 - 1948)
BURDICK, Clark, a Representative from Rhode Island; born in Newport,
R.I., January 13, 1868; attended the public schools; was a student at
the Harvard Law School 1893-1895; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and
commenced practice in Newport; also interested in banking and served as
president of the Newport Trust Co.; member of the First Division, Rhode
Island Naval Militia, in 1896 and 1897; member of the city school board
1899-1901; city solicitor of Newport in 1901, 1902, and again in 1907
and 1908; member of the State house of representatives 1906-1908;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912; member of the
Newport representative council 1906-1916, serving as chairman; served
in the State senate in 1915 and 1916; awarded the third class order of
the Sacred Treasury of Japan for services rendered the representatives
of the Emperor of Japan in 1917; mayor of Newport in 1917 and 1918;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; reengaged in the
practice of law and also in his banking interests in Newport, R.I.,
until his death on August 27, 1948; interment in St. Mary's Episcopal
Cemetery, Portsmouth, R.I.
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BURKE, William Joseph, (1862 - 1925)
BURKE, William Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near
London, England, September 25, 1862; immigrated to the United States in
1866 with his parents, who settled in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County,
Pa.; attended the public schools; employed in the coal mines at the age
of twelve; entered the railroad service in 1878 with residence in
Pittsburgh, Pa.; was a member of the Allegheny Common Council for four
years, and from 1906 to 1910 was a member of the greater city council
of Pittsburgh; became extensively interested in the production of oil
near Callery, Butler County, in 1904; identified with organized labor
as chairman of the general committee of adjustment, Order of Railroad
Conductors, of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad system; elected a member
of the State senate in 1914 and served until January 1, 1918, when he
resigned to become a member of the Pittsburgh City Council, serving
until January 1919, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); did not seek renomination, but was an
unsuccessful candidate for election as United States Senator in 1922;
resumed activities with organized labor and served as chairman of the
general committee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors; also
engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the production of oil; died at
his summer home in Callery Junction, Butler County, near Pittsburgh
November 7, 1925; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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CAPPER, Arthur, (1865 - 1951)
CAPPER, Arthur, a Senator from Kansas; born in Garnett, Anderson
County, Kans., July 14, 1865; attended the common schools; learned the
art of printing and subsequently became a newspaper reporter; owner and
publisher of the Topeka Daily Capital, Capper's Weekly, Capper's
Farmer, the Household Magazine, and other publications; owner of two
radio stations; president of the board of regents, Kansas Agricultural
College 1910-1913; founded The Capper Foundation, Topeka, Kans., in
1920; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Kansas in 1912; Governor
of Kansas 1915-1919; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate in 1918; reelected in 1924, 1930, 1936, and again in 1942 and
served from March 4, 1919, to January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for
renomination in 1948; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of Agriculture (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Claims
(Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses), Committee on District of
Columbia (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-second Congresses), Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry (Eightieth Congress); returned to Topeka,
Kans., and continued publishing business; died in Topeka, Kans.,
December 19, 1951; interment in Topeka Cemetery.
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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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CHINDBLOM, Carl Richard, (1870 - 1956)
CHINDBLOM, Carl Richard, a Representative from Illinois; born in
Chicago, Ill., December 21, 1870; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., in 1890 and from
the Kent College of Law (Lake Forest University) at Chicago in 1898;
teacher in Martin Luther College in Chicago 1893-1896; was admitted to
the bar in 1900 and commenced the practice of law in Chicago, Ill.;
delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1904, 1908, 1912, and
1916; attorney for the Illinois State Board of Health in 1905 and 1906;
member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners 1906-1910; county
attorney of Cook County 1912-1914; master in chancery of the circuit
court of Cook County 1916-1918; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March
3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; resumed the
practice of law in Chicago, Ill., until his death; referee in
bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois 1934-1942; died in Chicago, Ill., September 12,
1956; interment in Ridgewood Cemetery, Des Plaines, Ill.
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CHRISTOPHERSON, Charles Andrew, (1871 - 1951)
CHRISTOPHERSON, Charles Andrew, a Representative from South Dakota;
born in Amherst Township, Fillmore County, Minn., July 23, 1871;
attended the public schools of Amherst Township, Minn., and Sioux Falls
(S.Dak.) Business College and Normal School; moved to Sioux Falls,
S.Dak., in 1890; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and
commenced practice in Sioux Falls, S.Dak.; member of the board of
education of Sioux Falls 1908-1918, serving as president 1911-1915;
member of the board of directors of the Union Savings Association in
1912 and was subsequently elected president; member of the State house
of representatives 1912-1916, serving as speaker during his last term;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and for election in
1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reengaged in the practice of law
in Sioux Falls, S.Dak., until September 1936, and was also interested
in the banking business; delegate to the Republican National Convention
in 1944; served as State administrator of the War Savings staff in
1941-1943; executive manager of the State war finance committee; in
1944 became chairman of the Advisory Committee of the United States
Savings Bond Division; died in Sioux Falls, S.Dak., November 2, 1951;
interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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COLE, Raymond Clinton, (1870 - 1957)
COLE, Raymond Clinton, (brother of Ralph Dayton Cole), a Representative
from Ohio; born in Biglick Township, near Findlay, Hancock County,
Ohio, August 21, 1870; attended the common schools and Findlay College,
Findlay, Ohio; taught school nine years; was graduated from the law
department of Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1900; was admitted to
the Ohio bar the same year and commenced practice in Findlay, Ohio, in
1901; member of the National Guard 1903-1913; served as city solicitor
1912-1916; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh,
and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1925); chairman,
Committee on Elections No. 1 (Sixty-eighth Congress); was an
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth
Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Findlay, Ohio, on
February 8, 1957; interment in Bright Cemetery.
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COMER, Braxton Bragg, (1848 - 1927)
COMER, Braxton Bragg, a Senator from Alabama; born in Spring Hill,
Barbour (now Mobile) County, Ala., November 7, 1848; attended the
common schools, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and the
University of Georgia at Athens; graduated from Emory and Henry
College, Emory, Va., in 1869; engaged as a planter, merchant, banker,
and cotton manufacturer; member of the commissioners' court of Barbour
County, Ala., 1874-1880; moved to Anniston, Ala., and to Birmingham,
Ala., in 1890; continued in his agricultural and business pursuits;
president of the Railroad Commission of Alabama 1905-1906; Governor of
Alabama 1907-1911; appointed on March 5, 1920, as a Democrat to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John H.
Bankhead and served from March 5, 1920, to November 2, 1920, when a
successor was elected; resumed his former business pursuits in
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., and died there August 15, 1927;
interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
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CROWTHER, Frank, (1870 - 1955)
CROWTHER, Frank, a Representative from New York; born in Liverpool,
England, July 10, 1870; immigrated to the United States in 1872 with
his parents, who settled in Canton, Mass.; attended the public schools;
was graduated from the Lowell School of Design, a branch of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1888; designer of fabrics,
carpets, and rugs for seven years; was graduated from Harvard Dental
School in 1898 and commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; moved to Perth
Amboy, N.J., in 1901 and continued the practice of dentistry; member of
the New Jersey house of assembly in 1904 and 1905; member of the
Middlesex County Board of Taxation 1906-1909; moved to Schenectady,
N.Y., in 1912 and continued the practice of his profession until
elected to Congress; president of the common council of Schenectady in
1917 and 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the
eleven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-January 3, 1943); chairman,
Committee on Memorials (Seventy-first Congress); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1942; moved to Pueblo, Colo., in 1943 and engaged
in violin study, landscape painting, and public speaking; died in
Pueblo, Colo., July 20, 1955; interment in Roselawn Cemetery.
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CULLEN, Thomas Henry, (1868 - 1944)
CULLEN, Thomas Henry, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn,
N.Y., March 29, 1868; attended the local parochial schools, and was
graduated from St. Francis College, Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1880; became
engaged in the marine insurance and shipping business; member of the
Senate assembly 1896-1898; served in the State senate 1899-1918;
delegate to the Democratic National Conventions from 1912 through 1932;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the twelve succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death in
Washington, D.C., on March 1, 1944; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
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DAVIS, Ewin Lamar, (1876 - 1949)
DAVIS, Ewin Lamar, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Bedford
County, Tenn., February 5, 1876; attended the public schools, Webb
School, Bell Buckle, Tenn., Woolwine School, Tullahoma, Tenn., and
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., 1895-1897; was graduated from
Columbian (now George Washington) University Law School, Washington,
D.C., in 1899; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Tullahoma, Tenn.; delegate to all Democratic State
conventions 1900-1910; judge of the seventh judicial circuit of
Tennessee 1910-1918; chairman of the district exemption board for the
middle district of Tennessee in 1917 and 1918; director of the Traders
National Bank of Tullahoma 1903-1940; trustee of Tennessee College for
Women 1906-1939; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the
six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); chairman,
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Seventy-second Congress);
was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; member of the
Federal Trade Commission from May 23, 1933, until his death, serving as
chairman in 1935, 1940, and 1945; member of the American National
Committee, Third World Power Conference, in 1936; died in Washington,
D.C., on October 23, 1949; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Tullahoma,
Tenn.
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DIAL, Nathaniel Barksdale, (1862 - 1940)
DIAL, Nathaniel Barksdale, a Senator from South Carolina; born near
Laurens, Laurens County, S.C., April 24, 1862, attended the common
schools, Richmond (Va.) College, and Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tenn.; studied law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville;
admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice in Laurens, S.C.;
mayor of Laurens 1887-1891 and again in 1895; declined the office of
consul to Zurich, Switzerland, tendered by President Grover Cleveland
in 1893; engaged in banking and in various manufacturing enterprises;
unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in
1912; elected in 1918 as a Democrat to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1924; member of the commission to report on the use of
the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala., 1925; resumed the practice of
law in South Carolina and Washington, D.C., and also his former
manufacturing enterprises in South Carolina; died in Washington, D.C.,
on December 11, 1940; interment in Laurens Cemetery, Laurens, S.C.
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DICKINSON, Lester Jesse, (1873 - 1968)
DICKINSON, Lester Jesse, (cousin of Fred Dickinson Letts), a
Representative and a Senator from Iowa; born in Derby, Lucas County,
Iowa, October 29, 1873; attended the public schools; graduated from
Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1898, and from the law
department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1899; admitted to
the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Algona, Iowa; second
lieutenant in the Fifty-second Infantry, Iowa National Guard,
1900-1902; city clerk of Algona 1900-1904; prosecuting attorney of
Kossuth County 1909-1913; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth
and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1931);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1930, having become a candidate
for Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1930 and served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1937; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1936 and for election in 1938; resumed the
practice of law in Des Moines, Iowa, where he died on June 4, 1968;
interment in Algona Cemetery, Algona, Iowa.
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DREWRY, Patrick Henry, (1875 - 1947)
DREWRY, Patrick Henry, a Representative from Virginia; born in
Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., May 24, 1875; attended the public
schools, Petersburg High School, and McCabe's University School; was
graduated from Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va., in 1896; studied
law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; was admitted to
the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in Petersburg; director of the
Petersburg Savings & American Trust Co.; member of the State senate
1912-1920; delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1912, 1916,
1920, and 1924; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1916;
chairman of the Economy and Efficiency Commission of Virginia
1916-1918; chairman of the State auditing committee 1916-1920; chairman
of the State advisory board in 1919; member of the Democratic National
Congressional Committee 1923-1927; member of the Board of Visitors to
the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1925; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Walter A. Watson; reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to the
thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from April 27, 1920, until
his death in Petersburg, Va., December 21, 1947; interment in Blandford
Cemetery.
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DUNBAR, James Whitson, (1860 - 1943)
DUNBAR, James Whitson, a Representative from Indiana; born in New
Albany, Floyd County, Ind., October 17, 1860; attended the public
schools and was graduated from New Albany High School in 1878; engaged
in mercantile pursuits; manager of public utilities in New Albany and
Jeffersonville; secretary-treasurer of the Western Gas Association
1894-1906; secretary of the American Gas Institute 1906-1909; president
of the Indiana Gas Association 1908-1910 and secretary 1914-1919;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); was not a candidate for reelection in
1922; elected to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3,
1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the
Seventy-second Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; died in
New Albany, Ind., May 19, 1943; interment in Fairview Cemetery.
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ECHOLS, Leonard Sidney, (1871 - 1946)
ECHOLS, Leonard Sidney, a Representative from West Virginia; born in
Madison, Boone County, W.Va., October 30, 1871; attended the public
schools; was graduated from the commercial department of the University
of Kentucky at Lexington in 1894, from the Concord State Normal School,
Athens, W.Va., in 1898, and from the law department of the Southern
Normal University, Huntingdon, Tenn., in 1900; was admitted to the bar
in 1900 and commenced practice in Point Pleasant, W.Va., in 1903;
prosecuting attorney of Mason County 1904-1909; assistant State tax
commissioner for West Virginia 1909-1919; elected as a Republican to
the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3,
1923); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Navy
(Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress and for election in
1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; member of the committee on appeals
and review of the United States Treasury Department from May 1, 1923,
to September 15, 1924; delegate to the Republican State convention in
1924; postmaster at Charleston, W.Va., 1925-1928; resumed the practice
of law; served as referee in bankruptcy and as special master in the
United States District Court, Charleston, W.Va.; died in Charleston,
W.Va., May 9, 1946; interment in Sunset Memorial Park, South
Charleston, W.Va.
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EDGE, Walter Evans, (1873 - 1956)
EDGE, Walter Evans, a Senator from New Jersey; born in Philadelphia,
Pa., November 20, 1873; moved with his parents to Pleasantville, N.J.,
in 1877; attended the public schools; employed in a printing office in
Atlantic City, N.J., 1890-1894; newspaper owner and publisher; journal
clerk of the State senate 1897-1899; during the Spanish-American War
served as a second lieutenant; secretary of the State senate 1901-1904;
member, State house of assembly 1910; member, State senate 1911-1916,
serving as president in 1915; Governor of New Jersey 1917-1919, when he
resigned, having been elected United States Senator; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1918; reelected in 1924 and
served from March 4, 1919, until his resignation on November 21, 1929,
to accept a diplomatic post; chairman, Committee on Coast and Insular
Survey (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Interoceanic Canals
(Sixty-seventh through Seventy-first Congresses), Committee on Post
Office and Post Roads (Sixty-eighth Congress); appointed Ambassador to
France by President Herbert Hoover 1929-1933; again Governor of New
Jersey 1944-1947; died in New York City, October 29, 1956; interment in
Northwood Cemetery, Downingtown, Pa.
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EVANS, Charles Robley, (1866 - 1954)
EVANS, Charles Robley, a Representative from Nevada; born in
Breckenridge, Sangamon County, Ill., August 9, 1866; attended the
common schools; engaged in mining in Manhattan, Nev., in 1905; moved to
Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nev., in 1908 and continued mining
operations; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March
3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the
Sixty-seventh Congress; guide at the United States Capitol from 1934
until his retirement in 1948; died in Kearney, Nebr., November 30,
1954; interment in Waco Cemetery, Waco, Nebr.
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EVANS, Robert Emory, (1856 - 1925)
EVANS, Robert Emory, a Representative from Nebraska; born in Coalmont,
Huntingdon County, Pa., July 15, 1856; attended the public schools, the
State normal school at Millersville, Pa., and the Indiana (Pa.) Normal
School; employed in Colorado as a machinist 1877-1883; was graduated
from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in
1886; was admitted to the bar and practiced; moved to Dakota City,
Nebr., in 1887; superintendent of Winnebago Industrial School
1889-1891; prosecuting attorney of Dakota County in 1895; resigned to
become judge of the eighth judicial district, in which capacity he
served from 1895 to 1899; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1912; president of the Nebraska State Bar Association in
1919; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh
Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice
of law in Dakota City, Nebr.; elected judge of the supreme court from
the third district of Nebraska in 1924; moved to Lincoln, Nebr., where
he died July 8, 1925; interment in Graceland Park Cemetery, Sioux City,
Iowa.
DGH
FISH, Hamilton, (1888 - 1991)
FISH, Hamilton, (son of Hamilton Fish [1849-1936], grandson of Hamilton
Fish [1808-1893], and father of Hamilton Fish, Jr. [1926-1996]), a
Representative from New York; born in Garrison, Putnam County, N.Y.,
December 7, 1888; attended St. Marks School; was graduated from Harvard
University in 1910; elected as a Progressive to the New York State
assembly, 1914-1916; commissioned on July 15, 1917, captain of Company
K, Fifteenth New York National Guard (colored), which subsequently
became the Three Hundred and Sixty-ninth Infantry; was discharged as a
major on May 14, 1919; decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the
American Silver Star and also cited in War Department general orders;
colonel in the Officers' Reserve Corps; delegate, Republican National
Convention, 1928; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edmund Platt;
reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to the eleven succeeding Congresses
and served from November 2, 1920, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; author;
was a resident of Cold Spring, N.Y., until his death there on January
18, 1991.
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FOSTER, Israel Moore, (1873 - 1950)
FOSTER, Israel Moore, a Representative from Ohio; born in Athens,
Athens County, Ohio, January 12, 1873; attended the public schools, and
was graduated from the Ohio University at Athens in 1895; studied law
at the Harvard Law School in 1895 and 1896; was graduated from the Ohio
State Law School in 1898 and commenced practice the same year in
Athens, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Athens County 1902-1910; member
and secretary of the board of trustees of the Ohio University
twenty-four years; secretary of the Republican State central committee
in 1912; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and
Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1924; appointed a commissioner of the
court of claims April 1, 1925, and served until April 1, 1942, when he
retired; died in Washington, D.C., June 10, 1950; interment in Rock
Creek Cemetery.
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GABALDON, Isauro, (1875 - 1942)
GABALDON, Isauro, a Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands;
born in San Isidoro, Nueva Ecija, Philippine Islands, December 8, 1875;
attended the public schools in Tebar, Spain, and the Colleges Quintanar
del Rey and Villa Nueva de la Jara, Cuenca, Spain; studied law in the
Universidad Central, Madrid, Spain, and was graduated from the
Universidad Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippine Islands, in 1900; practiced
law from 1903 to 1906; Governor of the Province of Nueva Ecija in 1906
and 1912-1916; member of the Philippine house of representatives
1907-1911; served in the Philippine senate 1916-1919; elected as a
Nationalist a Resident Commissioner to the United States in 1920;
reelected in 1923 and 1925, and served from March 4, 1920, until his
resignation effective July 16, 1928, having been nominated for election
to the Philippine house of representatives; had also been elected in
1925 as a member of the Philippine house of representatives, but did
not qualify, preferring to continue as Commissioner; died in Manila,
Philippine Islands, December 21, 1942; interment in North Cemetery in
Manila.
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GANLY, James Vincent, (1878 - 1923)
GANLY, James Vincent, a Representative from New York; born in New York
City September 13, 1878; attended the public schools and Packard
Business College; engaged in the oil, real estate, and automobile
businesses; member of the State assembly in 1907; was the first county
clerk of Bronx County 1914-1918; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; elected
to the Sixty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1923, until his
death in an automobile accident in New York City September 7, 1923,
before the convening of Congress; interment in St. Raymond's Cemetery,
Borough of the Bronx, New York City.
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GOODING, Frank Robert, (1859 - 1928)
GOODING, Frank Robert, a Senator from Idaho; born in Tiverton, England,
September 16, 1859; immigrated in 1867 to the United States with his
parents, who settled on a farm near Paw Paw, Mich.; attended the common
schools; moved to Shasta, Calif., in 1877 and engaged in farming and
mining; moved to Idaho in 1881 and settled in Ketchum, where he worked
as a mail carrier, and subsequently engaged in the firewood and
charcoal business; in 1888 settled near the present site of Gooding,
which is named for him; engaged in farming and stock raising; member,
State senate 1900-1904; Governor of Idaho 1905-1908; unsuccessful
candidate for election in 1918 to the United States Senate; elected in
1920 as a Republican to the United States Senate for the term
commencing March 4, 1921; subsequently appointed to the Senate on
January 8, 1921, to become effective January 15, 1921, to fill the
vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1921, caused by the resignation of
John F. Nugent; reelected in 1926, and served from January 15, 1921,
until his death in Gooding, Idaho, June 24, 1928; interment in Elmwood
Cemetery.
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GOODYKOONTZ, Wells, (1872 - 1944)
GOODYKOONTZ, Wells, a Representative from West Virginia; born near
Newbern, Pulaski County, Va., June 3, 1872; educated under private
tutors and attended Oxford Academy at Floyd, Va., and the law
department of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; was
admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice at Williamson,
W.Va., in 1894; also engaged in banking; member of the State house of
delegates in 1911 and 1912; member of the State senate 1914-1918 and
served as president of the senate and Lieutenant Governor ex officio of
the State from 1917 to December 1, 1918; president of the West Virginia
Bar Association in 1917 and 1918; chairman of the central legal
advisory board for West Virginia during the First World War; elected as
a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to
the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law and banking
interests in Williamson, W.Va.; also engaged in literary work; died in
Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 2, 1944; interment in Fairview Cemetery,
Williamson, W.Va.
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GRIGSBY, George Barnes, (1874 - 1962)
GRIGSBY, George Barnes, a Delegate from the Territory of Alaska; born
in Sioux Falls, Dak. (now South Dakota), December 2, 1874; attended the
public schools, State University, Vermillion, S.Dak., and Sioux Falls
(S.Dak.) University; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1896 and
commenced practice in Sioux Falls, S.Dak.; delegate to the State
Democratic convention in 1896; during the Spanish-American War served
as a lieutenant in the Third Regiment, United States Volunteer Cavalry;
moved to Nome, Alaska, in 1902; assistant United States attorney
1902-1908; United States attorney 1908-1910; city attorney of Nome in
1911; mayor in 1914; member of the board of commissioners for the
promotion of uniform legislation in 1915; elected the first attorney
general in 1916 and resigned in 1919; presented credentials as a
Democratic Delegate-elect to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Charles A. Sulzer and served from June
3, 1920, until March 1, 1921, when he was succeeded by James
Wickersham, who contested the election of Mr. Sulzer in the first
instance and continued the contest against Mr. Grigsby; delegate to the
Democratic National Conventions in 1920 and 1924; engaged in the
practice of law in Ketchikan, Juneau, and Anchorage, Alaska; died in
Santa Rosa, Calif., May 9, 1962; interment in Golden Gate National
Cemetery, San Bruno, Calif.
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HARDY, Guy Urban, (1872 - 1947)
HARDY, Guy Urban, a Representative from Colorado; born in Abingdon,
Knox County, Ill., April 4, 1872; attended the public schools, Albion
Normal College, Albion, Ill., and Transylvania University, Lexington,
Ky.; taught school in Illinois and Florida 1890-1893; moved to Canon
City, Colo., in 1894; editor and publisher of the Canon City Daily and
Weekly Records since 1895; postmaster of Canon City from June 5, 1900,
to July 30, 1904; president of the National Editorial Association in
1918 and 1919; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the
six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; resumed
his former publishing pursuits in Canon City, Colo., and resided there
until his death on January 26, 1947; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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HARRELD, John William, (1872 - 1950)
HARRELD, John William, a Representative and a Senator from Oklahoma;
born near Morgantown, Butler County, Ky., January 24, 1872; attended
the public schools, the normal school at Lebanon, Ohio, and Bryant and
Stratton Business College of Louisville, Ky., where he taught while
studying law; admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in
Morgantown, Ky.; prosecuting attorney of Butler County 1892-1896; moved
to Ardmore, Okla., in 1906 and continued the practice of law; referee
in bankruptcy 1908-1915, when he resigned to become an executive with
an oil corporation; moved to Oklahoma City, Okla., in 1917 and engaged
in the production of oil and continued the practice of law; elected on
November 8, 1919, as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph B. Thompson and served from
November 8, 1919, to March 3, 1921; was not a candidate for
renomination, having become a candidate for the Republican nomination
for United States Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate in 1920 and served from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1927;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926; chairman, Committee on
Indian Affairs (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress;
returned to Oklahoma City and continued the practice of law and his
interest in the oil business; died in Oklahoma City, Okla., December
26, 1950; interment in Fairlawn Cemetery.
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HARRIS, William Julius, (1868 - 1932)
HARRIS, William Julius, (great-grandson of Charles Hooks), a Senator
from Georgia; born in Cedartown, Polk County, Ga., February 3, 1868;
attended the common schools and graduated from the University of
Georgia at Athens in 1890; engaged in the general insurance business
and banking at Cedartown; served as private secretary to United States
Senator Alexander S. Clay 1904-1909; member, State senate 1911-1912;
Director of the United States Census Bureau 1913-1915, when he resigned
to become a member of the Federal Trade Commission; Acting Secretary of
the Department of Commerce 1913-1915; member of the Federal Trade
Commission 1915-1918, when he resigned to become a candidate for United
States Senator; chairman of the commission 1917-1918; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1918; reelected in 1924 and in
1930 and served from March 4, 1919, until his death; member of the
National Forest Reservation Commission 1929-1932; died in Washington,
D.C., April 18, 1932; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the
United States Senate; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Cedartown, Ga.
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HAYS, Edward Dixon, (1872 - 1941)
HAYS, Edward Dixon, a Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near
Oak Ridge, Cape Girardeau County, Mo., April 28, 1872; attended the
public schools; was graduated from the Oak Ridge High School in 1889
and from the Cape Girardeau State Normal School in 1893; taught school
until 1895; moved to Jackson, Mo., in 1895; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Jackson, Cape Girardeau
County, Mo.; mayor of Jackson 1903-1907; probate judge of Cape
Girardeau County 1907-1918; unsuccessful Republican nominee for circuit
judge in 1916; moved to Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1915 and continued the
practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and
Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed
the practice of his profession in Cape Girardeau, Mo.; trial lawyer for
the Department of Justice in the Court of Claims 1923-1925; appointed
valuation attorney for the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1925 and
served until 1933; continued the practice of law in Washington, D.C.,
and resided in Bethesda, Md., where he died on July 25, 1941; interment
in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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HERSMAN, Hugh Steel, (1872 - 1954)
HERSMAN, Hugh Steel, a Representative from California; born in Port
Deposit, Cecil County, Md., July 8, 1872; moved to California with his
parents, who settled in Berkeley in 1881; attended the public schools
in California; was graduated from the Southwestern Presbyterian
University, Tennessee, in 1893; studied at the University of California
at Berkeley in 1897 and 1898; president of the First National Bank,
Gilroy, Calif., 1914-1918; officer and director of various
corporations; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March
4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful for reelection in 1920 to the
Sixty-seventh Congress; member of the board of directors of the
American Trust Co., Gilroy, Calif.; died in San Francisco, Calif.,
March 7, 1954; interment in Nottingham Cemetery, Colora, Cecil County,
Md.
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HICKEY, Andrew James, (1872 - 1942)
HICKEY, Andrew James, a Representative from Indiana; born in Albion,
Orleans County, N.Y., August 27, 1872; attended the public schools of
his native city and Buffalo (N.Y.) Law School; was admitted to the New
York bar in 1896 and commenced practice in La Porte, Ind., in 1897;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress, for election in 1934
to the Seventy-fourth Congress, and in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth
Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Buffalo, Erie County,
N.Y., August 20, 1942, while on a motor trip; interment in Pine Lake
Cemetery, La Porte, Ind.
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HILL, William Henry, (1877 - 1972)
HILL, William Henry, a Representative from New York; born in Plains,
Luzerne County, Pa., March 23, 1877; attended the public schools; was
graduated from the high school at Binghamton, N.Y.; mayor of
Lestershire (now Johnson City), N.Y., 1898-1901; postmaster of
Lestershire 1902-1910; editor and publisher of the Record at Johnson
City 1898-1921; member of the State senate 1914-1918; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921);
was not a candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh
Congress; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1924,
1928, 1932, 1940, and 1944; appointed as a member of the New York State
Parks Commission by Governor Smith in 1925 and elected chairman in
1933; chairman of the New York Hoover-for-President Committee in 1928;
vice chairman of the Republican Campaign Committee in the East in 1932;
trustee of Syracuse University; member of the Republican executive
committee of the State of New York; newspaper publisher until 1960;
resided in Binghamton, N.Y., where he died July 24, 1972; interment in
Riverhurst Cemetery, Endicott, N.Y.
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HOCH, Homer, (1879 - 1949)
HOCH, Homer, a Representative from Kansas; born in Marion, Marion
County, Kans., July 4, 1879; attended the public schools and was
graduated from Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., in 1902; attended
George Washington Law School, Washington, D.C., and Washburn Law
School, Topeka, Kans., from which he was graduated in 1909; clerk and
chief of the Appointment Division, Post Office Department, Washington,
D.C., 1903-1905; private secretary to the Governor of Kansas in 1907
and 1908; engaged in the practice of law in Marion, Kans., 1909-1919;
editor of the Marion (Kans.) Record; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1928; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth
and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third
Congress; member and chairman of the State Corporation Commission of
Kansas 1933-1939; elected a member of the supreme court of Kansas in
1938; reelected in 1944 and served until his death in Topeka, Kans.,
January 30, 1949; interment in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Kans.
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HOEY, Clyde Roark, (1877 - 1954)
HOEY, Clyde Roark, a Representative and a Senator from North Carolina;
born in Shelby, Cleveland County, N.C., on December 11, 1877; attended
the public schools; learned the printing trade and later became, at the
age of sixteen, owner, editor and publisher of the Cleveland Star;
graduated from the law department of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill; admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced the practice
of law in Shelby, N.C.; member, State house of commons 1898-1902;
member, State senate 1902-1904; assistant United States attorney for
the western district of North Carolina 1913-1919; elected on December
16, 1919, as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Edwin Y. Webb and served from December 16,
1919, to March 3, 1921; was not a candidate for renomination in 1920;
resumed the practice of law; Governor of North Carolina 1937-1941;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1944; reelected in
1950 and served from January 3, 1945, until his death in his Senate
office in Washington, D.C., May 12, 1954; interment in Sunset Cemetery,
Shelby, N.C.
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HOUGHTON, Alanson Bigelow, (1863 - 1941)
HOUGHTON, Alanson Bigelow, (grandfather of Amory Houghton), a
Representative from New York; born in Cambridge, Mass., October 10,
1863; moved to Corning, N.Y., with his parents in 1868; attended the
public schools, Corning (N.Y.) Free Academy, and St. Paul's School,
Concord, N.H.; was graduated from Harvard University in 1886; took
postgraduate courses at Gottingen, Berlin, and Paris from 1886 to 1889;
commenced the manufacture of glass at Corning, N.Y., in 1889; vice
president of the Corning Glass Works from 1902 to 1910, when he was
elected president of the company; president of the board of education
of Corning; became trustee of Hobart College in 1917; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses and served
from March 4, 1919, to February 28, 1922, when he resigned, having been
appointed on February 10, 1922, by President Harding, as Ambassador to
Germany, in which capacity he served until April 6, 1925; appointed by
President Coolidge as Ambassador to Great Britain on February 24, 1925,
and served in that capacity until April 27, 1929; unsuccessful
candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1928; resumed his
interests in the glass manufacturing industry; died at his summer home
in South Dartmouth, Mass., September 15, 1941; interment in Hope
Cemetery Annex, Corning, N.Y.
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HOWARD, Everette Burgess, (1873 - 1950)
HOWARD, Everette Burgess, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in
Morgantown, Butler County, Ky., September 19, 1873; attended the public
schools; learned the art of printing and engaged in newspaper work in
Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Missouri; moved to Tulsa, Okla., in 1905 and
engaged in the manufacture of brick and in the production of oil and
gas; member of the State board of public affairs 1911-1915; State
auditor of Oklahoma 1915-1919; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth
Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; elected to the
Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1924, but was an unsuccessful candidate
for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator; elected to the
Seventieth Congress (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; engaged
in the production of oil and gas in Oklahoma and Texas in 1930; died in
Midland, Tex., April 3, 1950; interment in Memorial Park, Oklahoma
City, Okla.
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HUDSPETH, Claude Benton, (1877 - 1941)
HUDSPETH, Claude Benton, a Representative from Texas; born in Medina,
Bandera County, Tex., May 12, 1877; attended the country schools;
learned the printing trade; moved to Ozona, Tex., in 1893 and published
the Ozona Kicker for a few years; employed as a cowboy; engaged in the
cattle trading business and later in ranching; member of the State
house of representatives 1902-1906; served in the State senate
1906-1918 and was elected president of that body four times; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in El Paso,
Tex.; director of the Texan Oil & Land Co.; elected as a Democrat to
the Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for renomination in 1930;
resided in San Antonio, Tex., until his death there on March 19, 1941;
interment in Mission Burial Park.
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JAMES, Rorer Abraham, (1859 - 1921)
JAMES, Rorer Abraham, a Representative from Virginia; born near
Brosville, Pittsylvania County, Va., March 1, 1859; instructed by
private tutors; attended Roanoke College; was graduated from the
Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1882 and from the law
department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1887;
was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Danville,
Va.; became owner and editor of the Danville Register in 1899 and later
purchased the Danville Bee; member of the State house of delegates
1889-1892; served in the State senate 1893-1901; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1920; chairman of the fifth district
Democratic committee; chairman of the Democratic State committee;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress, by special election,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States
Representative Edward W. Saunders, and reelected to the Sixty-seventh
Congress (June 1, 1920-August 6, 1921); died on August 6, 1921, in
Danville, Va.; interment in Green Hill Cemetery.
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JEFFERIS, Albert Webb, (1868 - 1942)
JEFFERIS, Albert Webb, a Representative from Nebraska; born near
Embreeville, Chester County, Pa., December 7, 1868; attended the public
schools in Romansville, Pa., and the State normal school at West
Chester; taught school in West Bradford Township three years; was
graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor, in 1893; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Omaha, Nebr.; member of various Republican State and county
committees; assistant county attorney 1896-1898; unsuccessful candidate
for election in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; chairman of the
Republican State convention in 1910; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923);
unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in
1922; resumed the practice of law; was elected delegate at large to the
Republican National Convention in 1924; was manager of the
Coolidge-Dawes automobile caravan from Plymouth, Vt., to Bellingham,
Wash.; resumed the practice of law in Omaha, Nebr.; unsuccessful
candidate for nomination as United States Senator in 1940; died at
Omaha, Nebr., on September 14, 1942; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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JOHNSON, Paul Burney, (1880 - 1943)
JOHNSON, Paul Burney, a Representative from Mississippi; born in
Hillsboro, Scott County, Miss., March 23, 1880; attended the public
schools, Harpersville College, and Millsaps College; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice in Hattiesburg,
Forrest County, Miss.; judge of the city court in 1907 and 1908;
circuit judge of the twelfth judicial district 1910-1919; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1923); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1922; resumed the practice of his profession and also engaged in
agricultural pursuits; served as Governor from 1939 until his death at
Hattiesburg, Miss., December 26, 1943; interment in the City Cemetery.
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JOHNSTON, John Brown, (1882 - 1960)
JOHNSTON, John Brown, a Representative from New York; born in Glasgow,
Scotland, July 10, 1882; immigrated to America in 1886 with his
parents, who settled in Brooklyn, N.Y.; attended the public schools in
Long Island City and Brooklyn and the New York Law School; was admitted
to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Brooklyn; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); was
not a candidate for renomination; resumed the practice of his
profession in New York City; delegate to the Democratic National
Conventions in 1920 and 1924; elected a justice of the supreme court
for the second district of New York and assumed his duties on January
1, 1928, and on January 1, 1935, was designated an associate justice of
the appellate division and served until his retirement December 31,
1952; on January 1, 1953, was appointed an official referee of the
supreme court and continued until July 4, 1955, and then assumed the
office of State Administrator of the Judicial Conference of the State
of New York until his death; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., January 11, 1960;
interment in Green Wood Cemetery.
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JONES, Evan John, (1872 - 1952)
JONES, Evan John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Shamokin,
Northumberland County, Pa., October 23, 1872; attended the public
schools; was graduated from Clarion Normal School, Clarion, Pa., in
1892; taught school; was graduated from the Dickinson Law School in
1896; was admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice at St.
Marys, Pa.; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and
Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1922; resumed the practice of law at
Bradford, McKean County, Pa.; vice president and general manager of the
Emporium Forestry Co., director and general counsel of the Grasse River
Railroad Corp.; died in Bradford, Pa., January 9, 1952; interment in
Willow Dale Cemetery.
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KELLER, Oscar Edward, (1878 - 1927)
KELLER, Oscar Edward, a Representative from Minnesota; born in
Helenville, Jefferson County, Wis., July 30, 1878; attended the public
schools and the University of Wisconsin at Madison; moved to Minnesota
in 1901 and settled in St. Paul; employed as a billing clerk and later
engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the city council of St. Paul
1910-1914; city commissioner 1914-1919; commissioner of public
utilities from 1914 until July 1, 1919; elected as an Independent
Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Carl C. Van Dyke; reelected as a Republican to the
Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, and Sixty-ninth Congresses and served from
July 1, 1919, to March 3, 1927; chairman, Committee on Railways and
Canals (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1926; engaged in the real estate
business; died in St. Paul, Minn., November 21, 1927; interment in
Elmhurst Cemetery.
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KENDALL, Samuel Austin, (1859 - 1933)
KENDALL, Samuel Austin, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Greenville Township, Somerset County, Pa., November 1, 1859; attended
the public schools and was a student for some time at Valparaiso, Ind.,
and at Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio; taught school from 1876 to
1890 and served five years as superintendent of the public schools of
Jefferson, Iowa; returned to Somerset County, Pa., in 1890 and engaged
in the lumber business and the mining of coal; vice president of the
Kendall Lumber Co. of Pittsburgh and president of the Preston Railroad
Co.; member of the State house of representatives 1899-1903; elected as
a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses
and served from March 4, 1919, until his death; had been unsuccessful
for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; died in the House
Office Building, Washington, D.C., January 8, 1933; interment in
Hochstetler Cemetery, Greenville Township, Somerset County, Pa.
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KEYES, Henry Wilder, (1863 - 1938)
KEYES, Henry Wilder, a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Newbury,
Orange County, Vt., May 23, 1863; attended public and private schools;
attended New Hampshire College and Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.;
graduated from Harvard University in 1887; engaged in agricultural
pursuits; member, State house of representatives 1891-1895, 1915-1917;
member, State senate 1903-1905; treasurer of the State license
commission 1903-1915; chairman of the State excise commission
1915-1917; Governor of New Hampshire 1917-1919; president of the
Woodsville (N.H.) National Bank; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate in 1918; reelected in 1924 and 1930 and served from March
4, 1919, to January 3, 1937; was not a candidate for renomination in
1936; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department
(Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent
Expenses (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses);
died in North Haverhill, N.H., on June 19, 1938; interment in Oxbow
Cemetery, Newbury, Vt.
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KLECZKA, John Casimir, (1885 - 1959)
KLECZKA, John Casimir, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in
Milwaukee, Wis., on May 6, 1885; attended the parochial schools; was
graduated from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., in 1905; took
postgraduate courses at Catholic University at Washington, D.C., and at
the University of Wisconsin at Madison; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Milwaukee; served in the
State senate 1909-1911; delegate to the Republican National Convention
in 1912; commissioner of the circuit court of Milwaukee County
1914-1918; major judge advocate in the United States Army Reserves
after the First World War; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth
and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); did not
seek renomination in 1922 but returned to the practice of law; elected
circuit court judge in 1930 and served until his retirement due to ill
health in 1953; appointed a conciliation judge and court commissioner
by the circuit judges in 1957 and served until his death; died in
Milwaukee, Wis., April 21, 1959; interment in St. Adalbert's Cemetery.
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LANHAM, Fritz Garland, (1880 - 1965)
LANHAM, Fritz Garland, (son of Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham), a
Representative from Texas; born in Weatherford, Tex., January 3, 1880;
attended the public schools of Washington, D.C., and was graduated from
Weatherford College, Weatherford, Tex., in 1897; attended Vanderbilt
University in 1897 and 1898, and was graduated from the University of
Texas at Austin in 1900, subsequently taking a law course in the same
institution; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in
Weatherford, Tex.; moved to Fort Worth, Tex., in 1917; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of James C. Wilson; reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to
the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from April 19, 1919, to
January 3, 1947; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
(Seventy-second through Seventy-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1946; engaged as an adviser on legislation in
Washington, D.C., until 1961; moved to Austin, Tex., where he died July
31, 1965; interment in City Greenwood Cemetery, Weatherford, Tex.
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LANKFORD, William Chester, (1877 - 1964)
LANKFORD, William Chester, a Representative from Georgia; born in Camp
Creek Community, Clinch County, Ga., December 7, 1877; attended the
public schools in Clinch County and Abbeville, Ga.; taught school for
several years in his native county; was graduated from Jasper Normal
Institute, Jasper, Fla., in 1897, from the Georgia Normal College and
Business Institute, Abbeville, Ga., in 1900, and from the law
department of the University of Georgia at Athens in 1901; moved to
Douglas, Ga., in 1901 and commenced the practice of law; mayor of
Douglas in 1906; member of the board of education of Douglas 1907-1918;
judge of the city court from January 1, 1908, until May 1, 1916, when
he resigned to seek the Democratic nomination for Congress, but was an
unsuccessful candidate; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to
the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; resumed the practice
of law; with General Accounting Office in Washington, D.C., from
January 1935 to October 1942; died in Twin Lakes, Ga., December 10,
1964; interment in Douglas Cemetery, Douglas, Ga.
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LAYTON, Caleb Rodney, (1851 - 1930)
LAYTON, Caleb Rodney, a Representative from Delaware; born on the Long
farm near Frankford, Sussex County, Del., September 8, 1851; attended
the public schools and Georgetown Academy; was graduated from Amherst
(Mass.) College in 1873 and from the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1876 and began the
practice of medicine in Georgetown, Del.; secretary of the Republican
county committee 1876-1888; chairman of the Union Republican county
committee 1896-1901; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in
1896, 1900, and 1904; editor of the Union Republican 1897-1905;
secretary of state of Delaware 1901-1905; appointed auditor for the
State Department and other departments in Washington, D.C., and served
from 1906 to 1910; member of the Progressive State committee 1912-1918;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of medicine in
Georgetown, Sussex County, Del., until his death there on November 11,
1930; interment in St. Paul's Churchyard.
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LUCE, Robert, (1862 - 1946)
LUCE, Robert, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Auburn,
Androscoggin County, Maine, December 2, 1862; attended the public
schools of Auburn and Lewiston, Maine, and Somerville, Mass., and was
graduated from Harvard University in 1882; taught in the Waltham
(Mass.) High School for a year; engaged in journalism, founding and
serving as president of the Luce's Press Clipping Bureau in Boston and
New York in 1888; Republican member of the State house of
representatives in 1899 and 1901-1908; studied law and was admitted to
the bar in Boston in 1908, but did not engage in extensive practice;
president of the Republican State convention in 1910; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts in 1912; member of the Massachusetts Teachers
Retirement Board 1914-1919; delegate to the State constitutional
convention 1917-1919; president of the Republican Club of Massachusetts
in 1918; Regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1929-1931; author,
notably on the subject of political science; elected as a Republican to
the Sixty-sixth and the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1919-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Elections No. 2
(Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation
(Sixty-eighth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934
to the Seventy-fourth Congress; elected to the Seventy-fifth and
Seventy-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1941);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh
Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; died in Waltham, Mass.,
April 7, 1946; the remains were cremated and the ashes interred in
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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LUHRING, Oscar Raymond, (1879 - 1944)
LUHRING, Oscar Raymond, a Representative from Indiana; born in
Haubstadt, Gibson County, Ind., February 11, 1879; attended the public
schools; was graduated in law from the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville in 1900; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Evansville, Vanderburg County, Ind.; member of
the State house of representatives in 1903 and 1904; deputy prosecuting
attorney of the same circuit 1908-1912; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth
Congress; special assistant to the Secretary of Labor 1923-1925;
appointed by President Coolidge to be Assistant Attorney General of the
United States on September 9, 1925; appointed by President Hoover as an
associate justice of the supreme court for the District of Columbia
(now United States District Court) on July 3, 1930, and served until
his death in Washington, D.C., August 20, 1944; interment in the Abbey
Mausoleum, adjoining Arlington National Cemetery; reinterment in
National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Va.
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MacCRATE, John, (1885 - 1976)
MacCRATE, John, a Representative from New York; born in Dumbarton,
Scotland, March 29, 1885; immigrated with his mother to the United
States in 1893 and settled in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, N.Y., where his
father had provided a home; attended the public schools and the
Commercial High School in Brooklyn; was graduated from the law
department of New York University in 1906; was admitted to the bar the
same year and commenced practice in New York City; delegate to the
Republican National Conventions in 1916 and 1920; was nominated in the
primaries by both the Republican and Democratic Parties and was elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress and served from March 4,
1919, to December 30, 1920, when he resigned; elected justice of the
supreme court of the State of New York in 1920; reelected in 1934 and
1948 and served in the appellate division of the supreme court until
December 31, 1955, when he reached age limit; official referee, New
York State Supreme Court, in 1956, 1957, and to June 1958; died in
Brooklyn, N.Y., June 9, 1976; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery,
Queens, N.Y.
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MacGREGOR, Clarence, (1872 - 1952)
MacGREGOR, Clarence, a Representative from New York; born in Newark,
Wayne County, N.Y., September 16, 1872; attended the public schools in
Gloversville, Auburn, and Buffalo, N.Y., and was graduated from
Hartwick Seminary, Otsego County, N.Y., in 1893; took a special course
at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., in 1894 and 1895; was
admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced the practice of his
profession in Buffalo, N.Y.; member of the State assembly 1908-1912;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his resignation on
December 31, 1928, having been elected as a justice of the supreme
court of the State of New York, and serving until his retirement on
December 31, 1942; chairman, Committee on Accounts (Sixty-eighth
through Seventieth Congresses); appointed official referee of the
supreme court of the State of New York on January 7, 1943, and served
until his death in Buffalo, N.Y., February 18, 1952; interment in
Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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MAJOR, Samuel Collier, (1869 - 1931)
MAJOR, Samuel Collier, a Representative from Missouri; born in Fayette,
Howard County, Mo., July 2, 1869; attended the public schools and
Central College at Fayette; was graduated from St. James Military
Academy, Macon, Mo., in 1888; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1890 and commenced practice in Fayette, Mo.; appointed prosecuting
attorney of Howard County in 1892 and later was elected to the office
for two terms; served in the State senate 1907-1911; unsuccessful
candidate for election in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; elected as
a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh
Congress; resumed the practice of law in Fayette, Mo.; elected to the
Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses (March 4,
1923-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to
the Seventy-first Congress; elected to the Seventy-second Congress and
served from March 4, 1931, until his death in Fayette, Mo., July 28,
1931; interment in Fayette City Cemetery.
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MANN, Edward Coke, (1880 - 1931)
MANN, Edward Coke, a Representative from South Carolina; born in
Lowndesville, Abbeville County, S.C., November 21, 1880; attended the
common schools and was graduated from The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., in
1901; taught school one year and was connected with a tobacco company
for four years; was graduated from the law department of the University
of South Carolina at Columbia in 1906 and commenced practice in St.
Matthews, Calhoun County, S.C.; solicitor of the first circuit of South
Carolina 1916-1919; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Asbury Francis Lever
and served from October 7, 1919, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful for
renomination in 1920; practiced law in Orangeburg, S.C.; appointed
master in equity for Orangeburg County in November 1923; reappointed in
November 1927 and served until his death; was accidentally killed
November 11, 1931, near Rowesville, S.C., while on a hunting trip;
interment in Sunnyside Cemetery, Orangeburg, S.C.
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McDUFFIE, John, (1883 - 1950)
McDUFFIE, John, a Representative from Alabama; born in River Ridge,
Monroe County, Ala., September 25, 1883; educated by private tutors and
attended Southern University, Greensboro, Ala.; was graduated from
Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn in 1904 and from the law
department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1908; member
of the State house of representatives 1907-1911; was admitted to the
bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Monroeville, Ala.; prosecuting
attorney for the first judicial circuit of Alabama 1911-1919; elected
as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses
and served from March 4, 1919, until his resignation, effective March
2, 1935, having been appointed a judge in the United States district
court, and served until his death in Mobile, Ala., November 1, 1950;
minority whip (Seventy-first Congress), majority whip (Seventy-second
Congress); chairman, Committee on Insular Affairs (Seventy-third and
Seventy-fourth Congresses); interment in Pine Crest Cemetery.
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McGLENNON, Cornelius Augustine, (1878 - 1931)
McGLENNON, Cornelius Augustine, a Representative from New Jersey; born
in East Newark, N.J., December 10, 1878; attended Holy Cross School,
Harrison, N.J., and St. Francis Xavier's High School in New York City;
was graduated from Seton Hall College, South Orange, N.J., in 1899;
public and high school principal 1901-1926; studied law at the New
Jersey Law School, Newark, N.J.; was admitted to the bar in 1916 and
commenced practice in East Newark, N.J.; member of the State senate in
1917 and 1918, serving as Democratic floor leader in 1918; mayor of
East Newark 1907-1919; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth
Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice
of his profession in East Newark, N.J.; delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1920; appointed judge of the court of errors and
appeals in 1924 and served until his death; also supervising principal
at Harrison, N.J., 1926-1931; died in Newark, N.J., June 13, 1931;
interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, East Orange, N.J.
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McKINIRY, Richard Francis, (1878 - 1950)
McKINIRY, Richard Francis, a Representative from New York; born in New
York City March 23, 1878; attended the public schools; was graduated
from the College of St. Francis Xavier, New York City, and from the New
York Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced the
practice of his profession in New York City; assistant district
attorney of Bronx County 1914-1917; secretary of the State supreme
court, first district, 1917-1919; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress;
appointed a magistrate of New York City on January 1, 1923, and served
until August 15, 1943, when he retired due to ill health; died in
Yonkers, N.Y., May 30, 1950; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Long Island
City, N.Y.
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McLANE, Patrick, (1875 - 1946)
McLANE, Patrick, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in County
Mayo, Ireland, March 14, 1875; immigrated to the United States in 1882
with his parents, who settled in Scranton, Pa.; attended the public
schools; worked in the coal mines of Scranton, Pa., for thirteen years;
during the Spanish-American War served in the Eleventh Regiment, United
States Army, in 1898 and 1899; became a locomotive engineer; member of
the Scranton School Board 1904-1911; delegate to the Democratic State
convention in 1905; member of the Democratic State committee in 1914;
presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Sixty-sixth
Congress and served from March 4, 1919, to February 25, 1921, when he
was succeeded by John R. Farr, who contested the election; unsuccessful
candidate for election in 1922 to the Sixty-seventh Congress and in
1924 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; employed as a locomotive engineer
until his death in Scranton, Pa., November 13, 1946; interment in
Cathedral Cemetery.
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McLAUGHLIN, Melvin Orlando, (1876 - 1928)
McLAUGHLIN, Melvin Orlando, a Representative from Nebraska; born in
Osceola, Clarke County, Iowa, August 8, 1876; moved with his parents to
Nebraska in 1884; attended the common schools and was graduated from
the College View (Nebr.) High School; subsequently pursued his studies
at the Lincoln (Nebr.) Normal University and the Nebraska State Normal
School at Peru; taught school near Lincoln 1895-1900; was a student at
the Iowa Christian College at Oskaloosa, Iowa, Omaha (Nebr.)
University, and the Union Biblical Seminary, Dayton, Ohio; served in
the ministry of the United Brethren Church, Omaha, Nebr., 1900-1913;
moved to York, Nebr., in 1913; president of York College 1913-1918; was
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; engaged in mining and
investments; died in York, York County, Nebr., on June 18, 1928;
interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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McLEOD, Clarence John, (1895 - 1959)
McLEOD, Clarence John, a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit,
Wayne County, Mich., July 3, 1895; attended the public schools; was
graduated from the Detroit College of Law in 1918; during the First
World War served as a private in the aviation section at the ground
school, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and as sergeant in the
Intelligence Division; accepted appointment May 12, 1919, as second
lieutenant in the Officers' Reserve Corps, and successively as captain,
major, and lieutenant colonel; was admitted to the bar in 1919 and
commenced practice in Detroit, Mich.; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles
A. Nichols and served from November 2, 1920, to March 3, 1921; was not
a candidate for election to the Sixty-seventh Congress; elected to the
Sixty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1923-January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to
the Seventy-fifth Congress; defeated for the Republican nomination for
Governor in 1934 and for mayor of Detroit in 1937; elected to the
Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress, for
election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress, and in 1944 to the
Seventy-ninth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican
nomination to the Eightieth Congress in 1946; unsuccessful candidate in
1950 to the Eighty-second Congress and in 1952 to the Eighty-third
Congress; practiced law; consultant to Administrator of Federal Civil
Defense Administration; died in Detroit, Mich., May 15, 1959; interment
in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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McPHERSON, Isaac Vanbert, (1868 - 1931)
McPHERSON, Isaac Vanbert, a Representative from Missouri; born near
Rome, Douglas County, Mo., March 8, 1868; moved to Bradleyville, Taney
County, Mo., with his parents; attended the graded schools, Springfield
(Mo.) High School, and Marionville (Mo.) College; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Mount Vernon,
Lawrence County, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County in 1901
and 1902; member of the State house of representatives in 1903 and
1904; appointed postmaster at Aurora, Lawrence County, Mo., in 1905 and
served until 1912; continued the practice of law in Aurora, Mo.;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for renomination
in 1922; appointed as assistant counsel in the legal department of the
United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in 1923 and
served in that capacity until his death in Aurora, Mo., October 31,
1931; interment in Maple Park Cemetery.
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MEAD, James Michael, (1885 - 1964)
MEAD, James Michael, a Representative and a Senator from New York; born
in Mount Morris, Livingston County, N.Y., December 27, 1885; moved to
Buffalo, N.Y., with his parents in 1890; attended the grammar,
technical, and evening schools of Buffalo, N.Y.; employed as a water
boy, lamplighter, spike mauler, and switchman on various railroads;
member of the Capitol police force in Washington, D.C., in 1911; served
on the board of supervisors of Erie County in 1914; member, State
assembly 1915-1918; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the
nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his
resignation on December 2, 1938; was not a candidate for renomination
in 1938, having become a candidate for Senator; elected on November 8,
1938, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Royal S. Copeland; reelected in 1940, and served
from December 3, 1938, to January 3, 1947; was not a candidate for
renomination in 1946; unsuccessful for the gubernatorial nomination in
1942 and for election as Governor in 1946; member of the Federal Trade
Commission 1949-1955; director of Washington office of the New York
Department of Commerce 1955-1956; moved to Clermont, Fla., in 1954 and
operated an orange grove until his death in Lakeland, Fla., on March
15, 1964; interment in Oakhill Cemetery, Clermont, Fla.
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MICHENER, Earl Cory, (1876 - 1957)
MICHENER, Earl Cory, a Representative from Michigan; born near Attica,
Seneca County, Ohio, November 30, 1876; moved with his parents to
Adrian, Mich., in 1889; attended the public schools of Adrian; during
the Spanish-American War served as a private in Company B, Thirty-first
Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, from April 26, 1898, to May 17,
1899; studied law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1901
and 1902 and was graduated from the law department of Columbian
University (now George Washington University) Washington, D.C., in
1903; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Adrian, Mich.; assistant prosecuting attorney for Lenawee County,
Mich., 1907-1910; prosecuting attorney 1911-1914; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); 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; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; elected to the
Seventy-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1935-January 3, 1951); chairman, Committee on Judiciary (Eightieth
Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1950; maintained law
offices in Adrian, Mich., until his death there July 4, 1957; interment
in Oakwood Cemetery.
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MILLIGAN, Jacob Le Roy, (1889 - 1951)
MILLIGAN, Jacob Le Roy, a Representative from Missouri; born in
Richmond, Ray County, Mo., March 9, 1889; attended the public schools
and the law department of the University of Missouri at Columbia
1910-1914; was admitted to the bar in 1913 and commenced practice in
Richmond, Mo., in 1914; during the First World War enlisted in the
Sixth Regiment, Missouri Infantry, on April 8, 1917; served as captain
of Company G, One Hundred and Fortieth Infantry Regiment, Thirty-fifth
Division, from August 4, 1917, to May 15, 1919; received the Purple
Heart and Silver Star; returned April 28, 1919; elected as a Democrat
to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Joshua W. Alexander and served from February 14, 1920,
to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the
Sixty-seventh Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Convention
in 1928; elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination
for United States Senator; resumed the practice of law; president of
Kansas City Police Board 1949-1950; died in Kansas City, Mo., March 9,
1951; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Liberty, Clay County, Mo.
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MINAHAN, Daniel Francis, (1877 - 1947)
MINAHAN, Daniel Francis, a Representative from New Jersey; born in
Springfield, Ohio, August 8, 1877; attended Stevens Institute
Preparatory School and Seton Hall College, South Orange, N.J.;
superintendent of work for his father, who was a contractor; mayor of
Orange, N.J., from May 1914 until August 1919, when he resigned;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March
3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the
Sixty-seventh Congress; again elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress
(March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress and for election in 1930 to the
Seventy-second Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Convention
in 1928; engaged in land development and resided in East Orange, N.J.,
until his death on April 29, 1947; interment in St. John's Cemetery,
Orange, N.J.
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MONAHAN, James Gideon, (1855 - 1923)
MONAHAN, James Gideon, a Representative from Wisconsin; born at Willow
Springs, near Darlington, Lafayette County, Wis., January 12, 1855;
attended the common schools and was graduated from the Darlington High
School in 1875; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1878 and commenced practice in Mineral Point, Wis.; returned to
Darlington in 1880; district attorney of Lafayette County 1880-1884;
editor and owner of the Darlington Republican Journal 1883-1919;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888; collector of
internal revenue for the second Wisconsin district 1900-1908; elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3,
1921); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920 to the
Sixty-seventh Congress; died in Dubuque, Iowa, December 5, 1923;
interment in Union Grove Cemetery, Darlington, Wis.
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MOONEY, Charles Anthony, (1879 - 1931)
MOONEY, Charles Anthony, a Representative from Ohio; born in St. Marys,
Auglaize County, Ohio, January 5, 1879; attended the public and Jesuit
schools; was graduated from St. Marys High School in 1895; engaged in
the life insurance business at St. Marys; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in
1910 and continued the life insurance business; member of the State
senate 1915-1919; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress
(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; delegate to the Democratic National
Conventions in 1920, 1924, and 1928; elected to the Sixty-eighth and to
the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his
death in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 29, 1931; interment in Gethsemane
Cemetery, St. Marys, Ohio.
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MOORE, Charles Ellis, (1884 - 1941)
MOORE, Charles Ellis, a Representative from Ohio; born near
Middlebourne, Guernsey County, Ohio, on January 3, 1884; attended the
common schools and Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio; taught school
in Oxford Township, Ohio; was graduated from Muskingum College, New
Concord, Ohio, in 1907 and from the law department of Ohio State
University at Columbus in 1910; was admitted to the bar in 1910 and
commenced practice in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio; prosecuting
attorney of Guernsey County 1914-1918; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March
3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the
Seventy-third Congress; 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; resumed the practice of law in Cambridge,
Ohio; also engaged in the banking business; died in Cambridge, Guernsey
County, Ohio, April 2, 1941; interment in Northwood Cemetery.
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MOORE, Robert Walton, (1859 - 1941)
MOORE, Robert Walton, a Representative from Virginia; born in Fairfax,
Fairfax County, Va., February 6, 1859; attended the Episcopal High
School near Alexandria, Va., and the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and
practiced in Virginia and Washington, D.C.; member of the Virginia
State senate 1887-1890; member of the State constitutional convention
in 1901 and 1902; president of the Virginia State Bar Association in
1911; member of the board of visitors to the College of William and
Mary and the University of Virginia; from 1907 until the First World
War was special counsel for carriers of the South in cases before the
Interstate Commerce Commission, the Commerce Court, and the United
States Supreme Court; assistant general counsel of the United States
Railroad Administration in 1918 and 1919; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-sixth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of United States Representative Charles C. Carlin,
and reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (April 27, 1919-March
3, 1931); was not a candidate for renomination in 1930; appointed a
member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution December
7, 1922; appointed as Assistant Secretary of State by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt September 19, 1933, was made counselor in 1937,
and served until his death in Fairfax, Va., February 8, 1941; interment
in Fairfax Cemetery.
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MURPHY, Benjamin Franklin, (1867 - 1938)
MURPHY, Benjamin Franklin, a Representative from Ohio; born in
Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, December 24, 1867; attended the
public schools; learned the glassworker's trade; later engaged in the
retail shoe business, in banking, and in the real estate business; vice
president of the Peoples National Bank; during the First World War
served with the Young Men's Christian Association, stationed at Camp
Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala., in 1917 and 1918; elected as a Republican
to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of Commerce (Sixty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and for election
in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; resided in Washington, D.C.;
died in Takoma Park, Md., March 6, 1938; interment in Union Cemetery,
Steubenville, Ohio.
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NELSON, William Lester, (1875 - 1946)
NELSON, William Lester, a Representative from Missouri; born on a farm
near Bunceton, Cooper County, Mo., August 4, 1875; attended the country
schools in his native county, Hooper Institute, William Jewell College
at Liberty, Mo., and the Missouri College of Agriculture at Columbia;
taught school for five years; subsequently entered the newspaper
business at Bunceton, Mo.; member of the State house of representatives
1901-1903 and 1905-1907; moved to Columbia, Mo., to become assistant
secretary of the State board of agriculture and served from 1908 to
1918; member of the editorial staff of the Iowa Homestead and other
Pierce publications 1921-1924; also engaged in agricultural pursuits;
author of various agricultural publications; elected as a Democrat to
the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed
journalistic pursuits in Columbia, Mo.; elected to the Sixty-ninth and
to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; elected to the
Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1935-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to
the Seventy-eighth Congress; served as assistant to War Food
Administrator Marvin Jones in 1943; returned to Columbia, Mo.; died in
Columbia, Mo., December 31, 1946; interment in Columbia Cemetery.
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NEWBERRY, Truman Handy, (1864 - 1945)
NEWBERRY, Truman Handy, (son of John Stoughton Newberry), a Senator
from Michigan; born in Detroit, Mich., November 5, 1864; attended
public and private schools; graduated from Yale College in 1885;
superintendent of construction, paymaster, general freight and
passenger agent, and eventually manager of the Detroit, Bay City &
Alpena Railway 1885-1887; president and treasurer of the Detroit Steel
& Spring Co. 1887-1901; engaged in various other manufacturing
activities; organizer of the Michigan State Naval Brigade; served in
the Navy during the Spanish-American War; Assistant Secretary of the
Navy 1905-1908; Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President
Theodore Roosevelt 1908-1909; lieutenant commander United States Navy
Fleet Reserve in 1917 and assistant to the commandant third naval
district of New York until 1919; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1919, until his resignation on
November 18, 1922; in 1921, Newberry was tried and convicted of
election "irregularities"; the conviction was reversed by the Supreme
Court, and, following an investigation, the Senate declared Newberry
entitled to his seat but expressed disapproval of the sum spent on his
election; in the face of a new movement to unseat him, Newberry
resigned; engaged in manufacturing; died in Grosse Pointe, Mich.,
October 3, 1945; interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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NEWTON, Cleveland Alexander, (1873 - 1945)
NEWTON, Cleveland Alexander, a Representative from Missouri; born in
Wright County, Mo., September 3, 1873; attended the common schools and
Drury College at Springfield, Mo.; was graduated from the law
department of the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1902; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Hartville, Mo., the same
year; member of the State house of representatives 1902-1906; assistant
United States attorney for the western district of Missouri from 1905
to 1907, when he resigned to become assistant attorney, United States
circuit court at St. Louis; resigned this office in 1911 to become
special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, which
office he resigned in 1912 to resume the practice of law in St. Louis,
Mo.; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1927); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth
Congress; again resumed the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo., and
Washington, D.C.; served as general counsel of the Mississippi Valley
Association 1928-1943; died in Washington, D.C., on September 17, 1945;
interment in Valhalla Mausoleum, St. Louis, Mo.
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NEWTON, Walter Hughes, (1880 - 1941)
NEWTON, Walter Hughes, a Representative from Minnesota; born in
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn., October 10, 1880; attended the
public schools and was graduated from the law department of the
University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1905; was admitted to the bar
the same year and commenced practice in Minneapolis, Minn.; first
assistant prosecuting attorney of Hennepin County 1914-1918; elected as
a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses
and served from March 4, 1919, until his resignation on June 30, 1929,
having been appointed secretary to President Hoover, serving in that
capacity until March 3, 1933; regent of the Smithsonian Institution;
appointed a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 and served until 1934 when he resumed the
practice of law in Minneapolis, Minn.; also engaged as an author;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth
Congress; appointed Federal referee in bankruptcy in 1938 and served
until his death in Minneapolis, Minn., August 10, 1941; interment in
Lakewood Cemetery.
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O'CONNELL, David Joseph, (1868 - 1930)
O'CONNELL, David Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in New
York City December 25, 1868; attended the public schools; employed in
the publishing business in New York City, later becoming sales manager
for Funk & Wagnalls; an organizer and first secretary of the
Twenty-eighth Ward Board of Trade and the Allied Board of Trade,
Brooklyn, N.Y.; president of the Booksellers' League of New York;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1920; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh
Congress; elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the three succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death; had been
reelected in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; died in New York
City, December 29, 1930; interment in St. John's Cemetery, Middle
Village, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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O'CONNOR, James, (1870 - 1941)
O'CONNOR, James, a Representative from Louisiana; born in New Orleans,
La., April 4, 1870; attended the public schools and was graduated from
the law department of Tulane University, New Orleans, La., in 1900;
member of the State constitutional conventions in 1898 and 1913; served
in the State house of representatives 1900-1912; assistant city
attorney of Orleans Parish from 1918 until his resignation in 1919,
having been elected to the United States House of Representatives;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Albert Estopinal; reelected to the Sixty-seventh
and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from June 5, 1919, to
March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930; resumed
the practice of law; served on the State attorney general's staff in
New Orleans; died in Covington, La., January 7, 1941; interment in
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans.
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OGDEN, Charles Franklin, (1873 - 1933)
OGDEN, Charles Franklin, a Representative from Kentucky; born in
Charlestown, Clark County, Ind., February 4, 1873; graduated from
Jeffersonville High School, Jeffersonville, Ind.; graduated from the
University of Louisville Law School, Louisville, Ky., 1896; lawyer,
private practice; member of the Kentucky state house of
representatives, 1898-1899; Company H, Eighth Regiment, United States
Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War; unsuccessful candidate for
county attorney in 1901; unsuccessful candidate for Kentucky state
senator in 1902; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the
succeeding Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); was not a candidate
for renomination to the Sixty-eighth Congress in 1922; died on April
10, 1933, in Louisville, Ky.; interment in Resthaven Cemetery,
Louisville, Ky.
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PARRISH, Lucian Walton, (1878 - 1922)
PARRISH, Lucian Walton, a Representative from Texas; born in Sister
Grove, near Van Alstyne, Grayson County, Tex., January 10, 1878; moved
with his parents to Clay County in 1887 and settled near Joy, Tex.;
attended the public schools of Joy and Bowie, Tex., and the North Texas
State Normal College at Denton, Tex.; taught school for two years; was
graduated from the law department of the University of Texas at Austin
in 1909; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice
in Henrietta, Tex.; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and
Sixty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death
in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Tex., March 27, 1922; interment in
Hope Cemetery, Henrietta, Tex.
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PATTERSON, Francis Ford, Jr., (1867 - 1935)
PATTERSON, Francis Ford, Jr., a Representative from New Jersey; born in
Newark, N.J., July 30, 1867; moved with his parents to Woodbury, N.J.,
in 1874; attended the public schools; employed in a newspaper office at
the age of thirteen; moved to Camden, N.J., in 1882; connected with the
Camden Courier 1883-1890; New Jersey editor of the Philadelphia Record
1890-1894; owner and publisher of the Camden Post-Telegram 1894-1923;
president of the West Jersey Trust Co. 1916-1925; director of the West
Jersey Title Co. 1920-1925; member of the State house of assembly in
1900; county clerk of Camden County 1900-1920; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1920; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William
J. Browning; reelected to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, and
Sixty-ninth Congresses and served from November 2, 1920, to March 3,
1927; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926; engaged in
banking, serving as president of the West Jersey Parkside Trust Co., of
Camden, N.J., until his death in Merchantville, N.J., on November 30,
1935; interment in Colestown Cemetery, located between Merchantville
and Moorestown, N.J.
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PELL, Herbert Claiborne, Jr., (1884 - 1961)
PELL, Herbert Claiborne, Jr., (great-grandson of John Francis Hamtramck
Claiborne, great-great-grandnephew of William Charles Cole Claiborne
and Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne, and father of Claiborne de Borda
Pell), a Representative from New York; born in New York City, February
16, 1884; attended Pomfret (Conn.) School, Harvard University, and
Columbia University, New York City; member of the Progressive committee
of Orange County, N.Y., 1912-1914; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress;
chairman of the Democratic State committee 1921-1926; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1924; occasional lecturer at Columbia
University, Harvard University, and other institutions of learning;
vice chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee in 1936;
appointed from Rhode Island as Minister to Portugal from May 27, 1937,
until February 11, 1941, when he was appointed Minister to Hungary,
serving in that capacity until his resignation on November 30, 1942,
after he had received the Hungarian declaration of war; United States
representative on the United Nations War Crimes Commission from August
1943 to January 1945; died in Munich, Germany, July 17, 1961; remains
cremated and the ashes committed off Beavertail, Jamestown, R.I.
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PERLMAN, Nathan David, (1887 - 1952)
PERLMAN, Nathan David, a Representative from New York; born in Poland
August 2, 1887; immigrated to the United States in 1891 with his
mother, who settled in New York City; attended the public schools and
the College of the City of New York; was graduated from New York
University Law School in 1907; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and
commenced practice in New York City; special deputy attorney general of
the State of New York 1912-1914; member of the State assembly
1915-1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Fiorello H. LaGuardia;
reelected to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, and Sixty-ninth
Congresses and served from November 2, 1920, to March 3, 1927;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth
Congress; resumed the practice of law; delegate to the New York State
Convention to repeal prohibition; magistrate of the city of New York
May 1, 1935, to September 1, 1936; appointed justice of the court of
special sessions of the city of New York November 26, 1936; reappointed
July 1, 1945, and served until his death in New York City, June 29,
1952; interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens County, N.Y.
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PHIPPS, Lawrence Cowle, (1862 - 1958)
PHIPPS, Lawrence Cowle, a Senator from Colorado; born in Amityville,
Pa., August 30, 1862; moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pa., in
1867; attended the common schools; entered the employ of the Carnegie
Steel Co., advancing from clerk to first vice president; retired from
active participation in the steel business in 1901; moved to Denver,
Colo., and engaged in the investment business; donor of the Agnes
Memorial Sanatorium in Denver; president of the Colorado Taxpayers'
Protective League in 1913; chairman of the mountain division in the Red
Cross campaign in 1917; member of the Colorado council of defense in
1917; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1918;
reelected in 1924, and served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1931; was
not a candidate for reelection in 1930; chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Department of State (Sixty-sixth Congress),
Committee on Education and Labor (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth
Congresses), Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Sixty-ninth and
Seventieth Congresses), Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads
(Seventy-first Congress); engaged in railroad and electric power
investments; died in Santa Monica, Calif., March 1, 1958; interment in
Fairmount Mausoleum, Denver, Colo.
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RADCLIFFE, Amos Henry, (1870 - 1950)
RADCLIFFE, Amos Henry, a Representative from New Jersey; born in
Paterson, N.J., January 16, 1870; attended the public schools of
Paterson; was graduated from the New York Trade School; blacksmith and
ornamental and structural iron worker; sergeant in the National Guard
of New Jersey 1888-1893; in 1896 became associated with his father's
firm and in 1907 was made secretary of James Radcliffe & Sons Co., a
structural iron manufacturing company; member of the State house of
assembly 1907-1912; delegate to the Republican State conventions in
1910, 1911, and 1912; sheriff of Passaic County 1912-1915; fish and
game commissioner 1914-1919; mayor of Paterson 1916-1919; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1923); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed active interests in
Radcliffe & Sons Company and was treasurer at the time of his death;
founder and a former president of the Franklin Trust Company, of
Paterson, and served as chairman of the board; in 1925 became a member
of the Board of Standards and Appeals, Paterson, N.J.; died in
Baleville, N.J., on December 29, 1950; interment in Cedar Lawn
Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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RAINEY, Lilius Bratton, (1876 - 1959)
RAINEY, Lilius Bratton, a Representative from Alabama; born in
Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., July 27, 1876; attended the common
schools; moved to Fort Payne, De Kalb County, Ala.; was graduated from
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala., in 1899 and from the
law department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1902; was
admitted to the bar in the latter year and commenced practice in
Gadsden, Ala.; elected a captain in the Alabama National Guard in 1903;
reelected and commissioned in 1906, but resigned the command in 1907;
city solicitor of Gadsden 1911-1917; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John L.
Burnett; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from
September 30, 1919, to March 3, 1923; declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1922; trustee of the State department of archives and
history, Montgomery, Ala.; resumed the practice of law in Gadsden,
Ala., until his death there September 27, 1959; interment in Glenwood
Cemetery, Fort Payne, Ala.
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RANDALL, Clifford Ellsworth, (1876 - 1934)
RANDALL, Clifford Ellsworth, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in
Troy Center, Walworth County, Wis., December 25, 1876; attended the
public schools; was graduated from the public high school of East Troy,
Wis., in 1894 and from the Whitewater Normal School in 1901; taught
school at Lake Beulah, Troy Center, and Rochester, Wis.; was graduated
from the law department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in
1906; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice
of law in Kenosha, Wis., judge of the municipal court 1909-1917;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920;
resumed the practice of law in Kenosha, Wis.; elected city attorney in
1921 and served until 1930, continued the practice of law in Kenosha,
Wis., until his death there on October 16, 1934; interment in Green
Ridge Cemetery.
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RANSLEY, Harry Clay, (1863 - 1941)
RANSLEY, Harry Clay, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Philadelphia, Pa., February 5, 1863; attended the public and private
schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; served in the State house of
representatives 1891-1894; member of the Select Council of Philadelphia
for sixteen years and president for eight years; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1912; sheriff of Philadelphia County
1916-1920; chairman of the Republican city committee 1916-1919; elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of J. Hampton Moore; reelected to the Sixty-seventh
and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from November 2,
1920, to January 3, 1937; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936
to the Seventy-fifth Congress; resumed his interest in mercantile
pursuits until his death in Philadelphia, Pa., November 7, 1941;
interment in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
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REBER, John, (1858 - 1931)
REBER, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in South Manheim
Township, Schuylkill County, Pa., February 1, 1858; attended the public
schools, and was graduated from the Eastman Business College,
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1875; taught school for several years and was
later employed as a bookkeeper; deputy county treasurer of Schuylkill
County 1882-1884; engaged in the manufacture of hosiery in Pottsville
1885-1917 and also interested in banking; elected as a Republican to
the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3,
1923); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Sixty-seventh Congress); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1922; resumed banking activities in
Pottsville, Pa., and served as president of the Reber Investment Co.;
died in Pottsville, Pa., on September 26, 1931; interment in the
Charles Baber Cemetery.
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REED, Daniel Alden, (1875 - 1959)
REED, Daniel Alden, a Representative from New York; born in Sheridan,
Chautauqua County, N.Y., September 15, 1875; attended the public
schools in Sheridan and in Silver Creek, N.Y.; was graduated from
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1898; studied law; was admitted to
the bar in 1900 and practiced in Silver Creek and later in Dunkirk,
N.Y.; attorney for the excise department of the State of New York
1903-1909; sent by the Government of the United States on a special
mission to France in 1917 and 1918; director of the Dunkirk Trust Co.;
lecturer on commercial and civic subjects; elected as a Republican to
the Sixty-sixth and to the twenty succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4, 1919, until his death; chairman, Committee on Industrial Arts
and Expositions (Sixty-eighth Congress), Committee on Education
(Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses), Committee on Ways and
Means (Eighty-third Congress), Joint Committee on Internal Revenue
Taxation (Eighty-third Congress); delegate to the Interparliamentary
Union meeting in Rome, Italy, in 1948, and represented the United
States at subsequent meetings in Sweden, Switzerland, and France; died
in Washington, D.C., February 19, 1959; interment in Sheridan Cemetery,
Sheridan, N.Y.
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RHODES, Marion Edwards, (1868 - 1928)
RHODES, Marion Edwards, a Representative from Missouri; born on a farm
near Glen Allen, Bollinger County, Mo., January 4, 1868; attended the
public schools and Will Mayfield College; was graduated from the State
normal school at Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1891 and from Stansbury
College in 1893; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1896 and commenced practice in Potosi, Washington County, Mo., in 1898;
delegate to all Republican State conventions from 1896 to 1920;
prosecuting attorney of Washington County 1900-1904; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907);
was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth
Congress; mayor of Potosi in 1908 and 1909; member of the State house
of representatives 1908-1910; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1908; member of the Missouri State Board of Law Examiners
1912-1914; elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining
(Sixty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922
to the Sixty-eighth Congress; appointed assistant to the Comptroller
General of the United States at Washington, D.C., and served from April
1, 1923, until his death in that city, December 25, 1928; interment in
the Masonic Cemetery, Potosi, Mo.
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RIDDICK, Carl Wood, (1872 - 1960)
RIDDICK, Carl Wood, a Representative from Montana; born in Wells,
Faribault County, Minn., February 25, 1872; attended the common
schools; was graduated from Menominee (Mich.) High School in 1890;
attended Albion (Mich.) College and Lawrence University, Appleton,
Wis.; editor and publisher of the Winamac (Ind.) Republican 1899-1910;
secretary of the Indiana Republican State central committee in 1906 and
1908; moved to Montana and settled on a homestead in Fergus County in
1910; engaged in wheat and cattle raising 1910-1918; county assessor of
Fergus County, Mont., 1915-1918; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923);
did not seek renomination in 1922, but was an unsuccessful candidate
for election to the United States Senate; former president of the
National Republic, a magazine published in Washington, D.C.; owned and
operated a home development at Sylvan Shores on South River, Riva, Md.;
moved to Florida; died in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., July 9, 1960;
interment in Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.
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ROBSION, John Marshall, (1873 - 1948)
ROBSION, John Marshall, (father of John Marshall Robsion, Jr.), a
Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born near Berlin, Bracken
County, Ky., January 2, 1873; attended the common schools, the National
Northern University in Ada, Ohio, and Holbrook College in Knoxville,
Tenn.; graduated from the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio,
and from the law department of Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1900;
taught in the public schools of Kentucky for several years and in Union
College, Barbourville, Ky.; admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced
practice at Barbourville, Ky., president of the First National Bank of
Barbourville, Ky.; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to
the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until
January 10, 1930, when he resigned to serve as United States Senator;
chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-eighth through
Seventy-first Congresses); appointed on January 9, 1930, as a
Republican to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Frederick M. Sackett and served from January 11, 1930, to November
30, 1930; unsuccessful candidate for election to the vacancy and also
for the full term in 1930; resumed the practice of law; elected to the
Seventy-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from
January 3, 1935, until his death in Barbourville, Ky., February 17,
1948; interment in Barbourville Cemetery.
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ROWAN, Joseph, (1870 - 1930)
ROWAN, Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in New York City
September 8, 1870; attended the public schools; was graduated from
Columbia College Law School in 1891; was admitted to the bar in 1892
and commenced the practice of law in New York City; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1920; continued the practice of his
profession in New York City until his death there on August 3, 1930;
interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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SINCLAIR, James Herbert, (1871 - 1943)
SINCLAIR, James Herbert, a Representative from North Dakota; born near
St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 1871; moved with his parents to
Cooperstown, Griggs County, N.Dak., in 1883; attended the public
schools and was graduated from Mayville (N.Dak.) State Normal School;
superintendent of schools of Cooperstown, N.Dak., 1896-1898; register
of deeds of Griggs County 1899-1905; organized the First National Bank
of Binford and served as cashier 1905-1908; moved to Kenmare, Ward
County, in March 1908; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the real
estate business; member of the State house of representatives
1915-1919; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the seven
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1934; Republican member of the Special
Mexican Claims Commission 1936-1939; died in Miami, Fla., September 5,
1943; the remains were cremated and the ashes deposited under a red
flowering hibiscus on the grounds of his home.
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SMITH, Frank Leslie, (1867 - 1950)
SMITH, Frank Leslie, a Representative and a Senator-elect from
Illinois; born in Dwight, Livingston County, Ill., November 24, 1867;
attended the public schools of Dwight; taught school for several years;
engaged in banking, real estate, insurance, and agricultural pursuits;
Dwight village clerk 1894; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant
governor 1904; internal-revenue collector 1905-1906; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1920, but was an unsuccessful
candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator;
resumed his former business pursuits; chairman of the Illinois Commerce
Commission 1921-1926; appointed as a Republican to the United States
Senate in 1926 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William B.
McKinley in the term ending March 3, 1927; presented credentials as a
Senator-designate but was not permitted to qualify, due to charges of
"fraud and corruption" in his campaign; presented credentials as a
Senator-elect to the United States Senate for the term beginning March
4, 1927, but again was not permitted to qualify and subsequently
tendered his resignation on February 9, 1928; unsuccessful candidate
for election in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; member of the
Republican National Committee in 1932; continued in real estate and
insurance business and agricultural pursuits; chairman of the board of
directors if the First National Bank of Dwight, Ill., until his death
there August 30, 1950; interment in Oak Lawn Cemetery.
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SMITHWICK, John Harris, (1872 - 1948)
SMITHWICK, John Harris, a Representative from Florida; born near
Orange, Cherokee County, Ga., July 17, 1872; attended the public
schools; was graduated from Reinhardt Normal College, Waleska, Ga., in
1895 and from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon,
Tenn., in 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced the
practice of his profession in Moultrie, Ga.; moved to Pensacola, Fla.,
in 1906 and continued the practice of his profession; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for renomination
in 1926; engaged in the real estate business in Fort Myers, Lee County,
Fla., and in Washington, D.C.; retired in 1932 and resided in Moultrie,
Ga., until his death on December 2, 1948; interment in Westview
Cemetery.
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STEPHENS, Ambrose Everett Burnside, (1862 - 1927)
STEPHENS, Ambrose Everett Burnside, a Representative from Ohio; born in
Crosby Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, June 3, 1862; attended the
public schools and Chickering's Institute of Cincinnati; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Cincinnati;
captain in the Ohio National Guard 1901-1903 and colonel in 1910 and
1911; clerk of the Hamilton County Courts 1911-1917; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses
and served from March 4, 1919, until his death; had been reelected to
the Seventieth Congress; died in North Bend, Ohio, February 12, 1927;
interment in Maple Grove Cemetery, Cleves, Hamilton County, Ohio.
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STOLL, Philip Henry, (1874 - 1958)
STOLL, Philip Henry, a Representative from South Carolina; born in
Little Rock, Marion (now Dillon) County, S.C., November 5, 1874;
attended the public schools; was graduated from Wofford College,
Spartanburg, S.C., in 1897; teacher in the public schools 1897-1901;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in
Kingstree, Williamsburg County, S.C.; member of the State house of
representatives 1905-1906; solicitor of the third judicial circuit from
1908 to 1917, when he resigned; chairman of the Democratic county
committee and member of the Democratic State committee 1908-1918;
commissioned as a major in the Judge Advocate General's Department of
the United States Army in 1917; promoted to the rank of lieutenant
colonel in 1918 and served throughout the First World War; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of J. Willard Ragsdale; reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress
and served from October 7, 1919, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1922; resumed the practice of law; again
a member, State house of representatives, 1929-1931; elected as a judge
of the third judicial circuit of South Carolina in 1931 and served
until December 6, 1946, when he retired; died in Columbia, S.C.,
October 29, 1958; interment in Williamsburg Presbyterian Cemetery,
Kingstree, S.C.
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STRONG, James George, (1870 - 1938)
STRONG, James George, a Representative from Kansas; born in Dwight,
Livingston County, Ill., April 23, 1870; attended the public schools of
Dwight, Ill., 1876-1879, the Episcopal Mission of Greenwood Agency,
S.Dak., 1879-1880, the public school at St. Marys, Kans., 1882-1887,
and Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., 1887-1889; moved to Blue Rapids,
Kans., in 1891; engaged in the real estate, loan, and insurance
businesses; also studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and
commenced practice in Blue Rapids; also interested in mercantile and
agricultural pursuits; city attorney 1896-1911; organized the Blue
Rapids Telephone Co. in 1905; assistant attorney general of Marshall
County in 1911 and 1912; delegate to the Republican National
Conventions in 1912 and 1928; organized and developed the Marshall
County Power & Light Co. in 1912; member of the school board 1913-1916;
prosecuting attorney of Marshall County in 1916 and 1917; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on War Claims
(Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses); unsuccessful for
renomination in 1932; appointed first assistant treasurer of the Home
Owners' Loan Corporation in 1933 and served until his death in
Washington, D.C., on January 11, 1938; interment in Fairmount Cemetery,
Blue Rapids, Kans.
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SUMMERS, John William, (1870 - 1937)
SUMMERS, John William, a Representative from Washington; born near
Valeene, Orange County, Ind., April 29, 1870; attended the public
schools; was graduated from the Southern Indiana Normal College at
Mitchell, Ind., in 1889 and from the Kentucky School of Medicine at
Louisville in 1892; pursued postgraduate studies in the Louisville
Medical College and in New York, London, Berlin, and the University of
Vienna, Austria; commenced the practice of medicine in Mattoon, Ill.;
moved to Walla Walla, Wash., in 1908 and continued the practice of
medicine; also engaged in agricultural pursuits and fruit raising;
member of the State house of representatives in 1917; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1919-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 former pursuits; died in Walla Walla, Wash., on September 25,
1937; interment in Mountain View Cemetery.
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SWINDALL, Charles, (1876 - 1939)
SWINDALL, Charles, a Representative from Oklahoma; born at College
Mound, near Terrell, Kaufman County, Tex., February 13, 1876; attended
the public schools and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; was
graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon,
Tenn., in 1897; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Woodward, Okla.; prosecuting attorney of Day (later Ellis)
County 1898-1900; returned to Woodward in 1900 and continued the
practice of law; delegate to the Republican National Convention in
1916; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Dick T. Morgan, and served from November
2, 1920, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law in
Woodward, Okla.; appointed April 26, 1924, judge of the twentieth
judicial district of Oklahoma, in which capacity he served until 1929;
justice of the State supreme court 1929-1934; resumed the practice of
law in Oklahoma City, Okla., until his death there June 19, 1939;
interment in Memorial Park Cemetery.
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SWOPE, King, (1893 - 1961)
SWOPE, King, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Danville, Boyle
County, Ky., August 10, 1893; attended the common schools; was
graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1914 and from the law
department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1916; was
admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in Lexington, Ky.;
enlisted and served during the First World War as captain of Infantry;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress by special
election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Harvey Helm
(August 1, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection
to the Sixty-seventh Congress in 1920; appointed aide-de-camp with the
rank of colonel on the staff of Gov. Edwin P. Morrow in 1919; resumed
the practice of law; chairman of the Republican executive committee of
Fayette County, Ky., 1928-1931; appointed and subsequently elected a
judge of the circuit court of the twenty-second judicial district of
Kentucky and served from 1931 to 1940; unsuccessful Republican
candidate for Governor in 1935 and 1939; delegate to the Republican
National Conventions in 1936, 1940, and 1944; chairman of the
Republican State convention in 1936; member of the judicial council of
Kentucky 1931-1940; died in Lexington, Ky., April 23, 1961; interment
in Lexington Cemetery.
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TAYLOR, James Willis, (1880 - 1939)
TAYLOR, James Willis, a Representative from Tennessee; born near Lead
Mine Bend, Union County, Tenn., August 28, 1880; attended the public
schools, Holbrook Normal College, Fountain City, Tenn., and the
American Temperance University, Harriman, Tenn.; taught school for
several years; was graduated from the law department of Cumberland
University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1902; was admitted to the bar the same
year; moved to La Follette, Campbell County, Tenn., and commenced
practice; postmaster at La Follette 1904-1909; served as mayor
1910-1913 and in 1918 and 1919; insurance commissioner for the State of
Tennessee in 1913 and 1914; chairman of the Republican State executive
committee in 1917 and 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth
and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919,
until his death; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department
of State (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses); member of the
Republican National Executive Committee 1929-1939; died in La Follette,
Tenn., November 14, 1939; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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THOMPSON, Charles James, (1862 - 1932)
THOMPSON, Charles James, a Representative from Ohio; born in
Wapakoneta, Auglaize County, Ohio, January 24, 1862; attended the
public schools and the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio;
learned the art of printing 1876-1879; worked as a journeyman printer
in various cities in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois 1879-1884; returned to
Wapakoneta in 1885 and was employed as a bookkeeper until 1889; moved
to Defiance, Ohio, in 1889 and was owner and publisher of the Defiance
Express until 1902; member of the Republican State central committee in
1893 and 1894; postmaster of Defiance 1898-1915; unsuccessful candidate
for mayor in 1915; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to
the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1931);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second
Congress; retired from business pursuits; died in Albuquerque, N.Mex.,
while on a visit, March 27, 1932; interment in Riverside Cemetery,
Defiance, Ohio.
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TINCHER, Jasper Napoleon, (1878 - 1951)
TINCHER, Jasper Napoleon, a Representative from Kansas; born near
Browning, Sullivan County, Mo., November 2, 1878; moved with his
parents to Medicine Lodge, Barber County, Kans., in 1892; attended the
common and high schools; taught school in Hardtner, Kans., from 1896
until February 1899; worked and studied in a law office and was
admitted to the bar in May 1899; commenced the practice of law in
Medicine Lodge, Kans.; also interested in farming and stock raising;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1927); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1926; moved to Hutchinson, Kans., in 1926 and practiced
law until his death there on November 6, 1951; interment in Memorial
Park Cemetery.
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UPSHAW, William David, (1866 - 1952)
UPSHAW, William David, a Representative from Georgia; born near Newnan,
Coweta County, Ga., October 15, 1866; attended the country schools, the
public schools of Atlanta, Ga., and Mercer University, Macon, Ga.;
engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits until physically
incapacitated by an accident; founded "The Golden Age," magazine at
Atlanta, Ga., February 22, 1906; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March
3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926; vice
chairman of the Scandinavian Commercial Commission; nominated for
President by the Prohibition Party in 1932; unsuccessful candidate for
the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1942; resumed
his former pursuits as a lecturer, evangelist, and writer; vice
president of the Linda Vista Baptist Bible College and Seminary and
member of the faculty, San Diego, Calif.; at the age of seventy-two was
ordained a minister of the Baptist Church; died in Glendale, Calif.,
November 21, 1952; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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VAILE, William Newell, (1876 - 1927)
VAILE, William Newell, a Representative from Colorado; born in Kokomo,
Howard County, Ind., June 22, 1876; moved with his parents to Denver,
Colo., in 1881; attended the public schools and was graduated from Yale
University in 1898; during the Spanish-American War served as a private
in the First Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Field Artillery from
May 19, 1898, to October 25, 1898; studied law at the University of
Colorado and Harvard Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1901 and
commenced the practice of law in Denver, Colo.; served on the Mexican
border from June 28 to December 1, 1916, as a second lieutenant in the
First Separate Battalion, National Guard of Colorado; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and
served from March 4, 1919, until his death in Rocky Mountain National
Park, Colo., on July 2, 1927; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in
the Department of the Treasury (Sixty-eighth Congress); interment in
Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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VOLK, Lester David, (1884 - 1962)
VOLK, Lester David, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn,
N.Y., September 17, 1884; attended the public and high schools; was
graduated from Long Island Medical School in 1906 and from St. Lawrence
University Law School in 1911; in 1906 engaged in the practice of
medicine; editor of the Medical Economist; was admitted to the bar in
1913 and engaged in the practice of law; elected as a Progressive to
the New York Assembly in 1912; declined to be a candidate for
renomination; coroner's physician in 1914; during the First World War
served as first lieutenant in the Medical Corps with the American
Expeditionary Forces in 1918 and 1919; was largely instrumental in
securing the soldiers' bonus granted by the State of New York; judge
advocate of the Veterans of Foreign Wars for the State of New York in
1922; delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1920, 1924, 1942,
and 1946; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Reuben L. Haskell; reelected
to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from November 2, 1920, to
March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the
Sixty-eighth Congress; member from New York City on the American
Waterways Commission in 1924; assistant attorney general of New York
State from March 1, 1943, to January 15, 1958; died in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
April 30, 1962; interment in Bayside Cemetery, Ozone Park, N.Y.
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WALSH, David Ignatius, (1872 - 1947)
WALSH, David Ignatius, a Senator from Massachusetts; born in
Leominster, Worcester County, Mass., November 11, 1872; attended the
public schools; graduated from Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., in
1893 and from Boston University Law School in 1897; admitted to the bar
and commenced practice at Fitchburg, Mass., in 1897, later practicing
in Boston; member, State house of representatives 1900-1901; lieutenant
governor of Massachusetts 1913 and Governor 1914-1915; delegate at
large to the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March
4, 1919, to March 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1924; resumed the practice of law in Boston; elected to the United
States Senate on November 2, 1926, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Henry Cabot Lodge and took his seat December 6, 1926;
reelected in 1928, 1934 and 1940 for the term ending January 3, 1947;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946; chairman, Committee on
Education and Labor (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses),
Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventy-fourth through Seventy-seventh and
Seventy-ninth Congresses); retired from political activities and
resided in Clinton, Mass., until his death; died in Boston, Mass., June
11, 1947; interment in St. John's Cemetery, Clinton, Mass.
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WEBSTER, John Stanley, (1877 - 1962)
WEBSTER, John Stanley, a Representative from Washington; born in
Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., February 22, 1877; attended the public
schools and Smith's Classical School for Boys; studied law at the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 1897-1899; was admitted to the bar
in 1899 and commenced practice in Cynthiana, Ky.; prosecuting attorney
of Harrison County, Ky., 1902-1906; moved to Spokane, Wash., in May
1906; chief assistant prosecuting attorney for Spokane County
1907-1909; judge of the superior court of Spokane County 1909-1916;
lecturer on criminal and elementary law in Gonzaga University, Spokane,
Wash.; associate justice of the State supreme court 1916-1918; elected
as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-eighth
Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, to May 8, 1923, when he
resigned to become United States district judge for the eastern
district of Washington, in which capacity he served until August 31,
1939, when he retired due to ill health; was a resident of Spokane,
Wash., until his death there on December 24, 1962; remains were
cremated and the ashes interred in the Oakesdale Cemetery, Oakesdale,
Wash.
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WHITE, Hays Baxter, (1855 - 1930)
WHITE, Hays Baxter, a Representative from Kansas; born near Fairfield,
Jefferson County, Iowa, on September 21, 1855; attended the rural
schools of his native county; engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved
to Jewell County, Kans., in 1875 and engaged in agricultural pursuits
near Mankato; taught school at Mankato in 1876; member of the State
house of representatives 1888-1890; member of the State senate
1900-1904; mayor of Mankato in 1914 and 1915; member of the State tax
commission in 1915-1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and
to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1929);
chairman, Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and
Representatives (Sixty-eighth through Seventieth Congresses); election
unsuccessfully contested by W.H. Clark; was not a candidate for
renomination in 1928; died in Mankato, Kans., September 29, 1930;
interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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WILSON, John Haden, (1867 - 1946)
WILSON, John Haden, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Nashville, Tenn., August 20, 1867; moved with his parents to Harmony,
Butler County, Pa., the same year; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Harmony (Pa.) Collegiate Institute, Zelienople (Pa.)
Academy, and from Grove City (Pa.) College; studied law and was
admitted to the bar in Butler, Pa., in 1893; taught school; commenced
the practice of law in Butler in 1896; member of the Pennsylvania
National Guard for three years and served during the Homestead riots;
was solicitor for the city of Butler 1906-1934, except while a Member
of Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1916,
1932, 1936, and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-elect Edward
E. Robbins and served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1921;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh
Congress; resumed the practice of law; served as judge of the several
courts of Butler County, Pa., 1933-1943; died in Butler, Pa., on
January 28, 1946; interment in North Cemetery.
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YATES, Richard, (1860 - 1936)
YATES, Richard, (son of Richard Yates [1815-1873]), a Representative
from Illinois; born in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill., December 12,
1860; attended public schools and Illinois Woman's College,
Jacksonville, Ill., 1870-1874; city editor of the Daily Courier in 1878
and 1879, and of the Daily Journal 1881-1883; was graduated from the
Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill., in 1880 and from the law
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1884;
commenced practice in Jacksonville, Ill.; city attorney of Jacksonville
1885-1890; private in Company I, Fifth Infantry, Illinois National
Guard 1885-1890; county judge of Morgan County 1894-1897; United States
collector of internal revenue for the eighth internal revenue district
1897-1900; Governor of Illinois 1901-1904; member of the State public
utilities commission 1914-1917; assistant attorney general of the State
of Illinois in 1917 and 1918; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March
3, 1933); unsuccessful for renomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first
Congress but was later appointed nominee and elected in place of Henry
R. Rathbone, deceased; unsuccessful for reelection in 1932 to the
Seventy-third Congress; resided in Harbor Springs, Mich., and
Springfield, Ill., while engaged in writing his memoirs; died in
Springfield, Ill., April 11, 1936; interment in Diamond Grove Cemetery,
Jacksonville, Ill.