The 69th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and po ...
and the
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...
. It met in
Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1925, to March 4, 1927, during the third and fourth years of
Calvin Coolidge's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the
House of Representatives
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was based on the
thirteenth decennial census of the United States in 1910.
The
Republicans made modest gains in maintaining their majority in both chambers, and with the election of
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer from New England who climbed up the ladder of Ma ...
to his own term in office, the Republicans maintained an overall federal government
trifecta.
Major events
A special session of the Senate was called by President Coolidge on February 14, 1925.
* Impeachment of Judge
George W. English
George Washington English (May 9, 1866 – July 19, 1941) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. Charged with abuse of power and other offenses, English was impeached by the U ...
— On April 1, 1926, the House of Representatives impeached Judge
George W. English
George Washington English (May 9, 1866 – July 19, 1941) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. Charged with abuse of power and other offenses, English was impeached by the U ...
of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. Both Houses adjourned on July 3, 1926, with the Senate scheduled to reconvene on November 10, 1926, as a Court of Impeachment. English resigned before the impeachment trial began. The Senate met as planned on November 10, 1926, to adjourn the court of impeachment ''sine die.'' On December 13, 1926, the Senate, acting on advice from the House managers of the impeachment, formally dismissed all charges against Judge English.
* January 17, 1927:
U.S. Supreme Court held (
McGrain v. Daugherty
''McGrain v. Daugherty'', 273 U.S. 135 (1927), was a case heard before the Supreme Court, decided January 17, 1927. It was a challenge to Mally Daugherty's contempt conviction and arrest, which happened when he failed to appear before a Senate co ...
) that Congress has the power to compel witness and testimony.
Major legislation
* February 26, 1926:
Revenue Act of 1926
* April 12, 1926:
Timber Exportation Act of 1926
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* May 8, 1926:
Federal Interpleader Act of 1926
* May 20, 1926:
Air Commerce Act
The Air Commerce Act of 1926 created an Aeronautic Branch of the United States Department of Commerce. Its functions included testing and licensing of pilots, certification of aircraft and investigation of accidents.
In 1934, the Aeronautics Bran ...
* May 20, 1926:
Federal Black Bass Act of 1926
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* May 20, 1926:
Railway Labor Act
The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law on US labor law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries. The Act, enacted in 1926 and amended in 1934 and 1936, seeks to substitute bargaining, arbitration, and media ...
(Parker-Watson Act)
* May 25, 1926:
Omnibus Adjustment Act of 1926
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Film and television
* ''Omnibus'' (film)
* Omnibus (broadcast), a compilation of Radio or TV episodes
* ''Omnibus'' (UK TV series), an arts-based documentary programme
* ''Omnibus'' (U.S. TV series), an educational progr ...
* May 25, 1926:
Public Buildings Act of 1926
The Public Buildings Act of 1926, also known as the Elliot–Fernald Act, was a statute which governed the construction of federal buildings throughout the United States, and authorized funding for this construction. Its primary sponsor in the ...
(Elliot-Fernald Act)
* May 26, 1926:
Shenandoah National Park
Shenandoah National Park (often ) is an American national park that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west, and the ...
Act of 1926
* June 3, 1926:
Subsistence Expense Act of 1926
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* June 14, 1926:
Recreation and Public Purposes Act
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* June 15, 1926:
Limitation of National Forest Designation Act Limitation may refer to:
*A disclaimer for research done in an experiment or study
*A Statute of limitations
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* July 2, 1926:
Cooperative Marketing Act The Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926 44 Stat. 802 (1926) was a piece of agricultural legislation passed in the United States which expanded upon the Capper–Volstead Act of 1922. It allowed farmers to exchange “past, present, and prospective cro ...
* July 3, 1926:
Walsh Act
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* July 3, 1926:
Passport Act of 1926
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* January 21, 1927:
River and Harbors Act of 1927
* February 23, 1927:
Radio Act of 1927
The Radio Act of 1927 (United States Public Law 632, 69th Congress) was signed into law on February 23, 1927. It replaced the Radio Act of 1912, increasing the federal government's regulatory powers over radio communication, with oversight veste ...
(Dill-White Act)
* February 25, 1927:
McFadden Act
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(Pepper-McFadden Act)
* March 3, 1927:
Foreign and Domestic Commerce Act of 1927
* March 3, 1927:
Produce Agency Act of 1927
* March 4, 1927:
Mayfield-Newton Act
Party summary
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
Senate
House of Representatives
Leadership
Senate
*
President
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
:
Charles G. Dawes
Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker, general, diplomat, composer, and Republican politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under Calvin Coolidge. He was a co-rec ...
(R)
*
President pro tempore
A president pro tempore or speaker pro tempore is a constitutionally recognized officer of a legislative body who presides over the chamber in the absence of the normal presiding officer. The phrase '' pro tempore'' is Latin "for the time being". ...
:
Albert B. Cummins (R), elected March 4, 1925
**
George H. Moses
George Higgins Moses (February 9, 1869December 20, 1944) was a U.S. diplomat and political figure. He served as a United States senator from New Hampshire and was chosen as the Senate's President pro tempore.
Biography
George H. Moses was born ...
(R), elected March 6, 1925
Majority (Republican) leadership
*
Majority Leader
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Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Sena ...
*
Majority Whip
A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. This means ensuring that members of the party vote according to the party platform, rather than according to their own individual ideolog ...
:
Wesley L. Jones
Wesley Livsey Jones (October 9, 1863November 19, 1932) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate representing the state of Washington.
Born near Bethany, Illinois days af ...
*
Republican Conference Secretary
Republican can refer to:
Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
:
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.
*
National Senatorial Committee Chair:
Lawrence C. Phipps
Lawrence Cowle Phipps (August 30, 1862 – March 1, 1958) was a United States Senator representing Colorado from 1919 until 1931.
Biography
Lawrence Cowle Phipps was born on August 30, 1862 in Amity, Pennsylvania, the son of William Henry Phi ...
Minority (Democratic) leadership
*
Minority Leader:
Joseph T. Robinson
Joseph Taylor Robinson (August 26, 1872 – July 14, 1937), also known as Joe T. Robinson, was an American politician from Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1913 to 1937, serving ...
*
Minority Whip
The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as the chief spokespersons for their respective political parties holding t ...
:
Peter G. Gerry
Peter Goelet Gerry (September 18, 1879 – October 31, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and later, as a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island. He is the only U.S. Senator in American h ...
*
Democratic Caucus Secretary:
William H. King
House of Representatives
*
Speaker
Speaker may refer to:
Society and politics
* Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
* Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture
* A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially:
** In ...
:
Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth III (November 5, 1869 – April 9, 1931) was an American politician who became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Republican. A lawyer by training, he was elected to the Ohio Senate, where he ini ...
(R)
Majority (Republican) leadership
*
Majority Leader
In U.S. politics (as well as in some other countries utilizing the presidential system), the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body. :
John Q. Tilson
John Quillin Tilson (April 5, 1866 – August 14, 1958) was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives for almost 22 years and was House Majority leader for 6 years.
Early lif ...
*
Majority Whip
A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. This means ensuring that members of the party vote according to the party platform, rather than according to their own individual ideolog ...
:
Albert H. Vestal
Albert Henry Vestal (January 18, 1875 – April 1, 1932) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a Republican United States Representative from Indiana from 1917 to 1932.
Biography
Born on a farm near Frankton, in Madiso ...
*
Republican Conference Chairman:
Willis C. Hawley
Willis Chatman Hawley (May 5, 1864 – July 24, 1941) was an American politician and educator in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he would serve as president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he earned his undergraduate ...
*
Republican Campaign Committee Chairman:
William R. Wood
Minority (Democratic) leadership
*
Minority Leader:
Finis J. Garrett
Finis James Garrett (August 26, 1875 – May 25, 1956) was a United States representative from Tennessee and a Chief Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
Education and career
Born on August 26, 1875, near Ore Springs, ...
*
Minority Whip
The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as the chief spokespersons for their respective political parties holding t ...
:
William Allan Oldfield
William Allan Oldfield (February 4, 1874 – November 19, 1928) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1909 until his death.
Early life
Born in Franklin, Arkansas, Oldfield was the son of b ...
*
Democratic Caucus Chairman:
Charles D. Carter
Charles David Carter (August 16, 1868 in Chickasaw – April 9, 1929) was a Native American politician elected as U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, serving from 1907 to 1927. During this period, he also served as Mining Trustee for Indian Terri ...
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives by district.
Senate
Senators were elected every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are
Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1928; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, facing re-election in 1930; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1926.
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
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, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
, area_total_km2 = 135,7 ...
: 2.
J. Thomas Heflin
James Thomas Heflin (April 9, 1869 – April 22, 1951), nicknamed "Cotton Tom", was an American politician who served as a United States representative and United States senator from Alabama.
Early life
Born in Louina, Alabama, he attended ...
(D)
: 3.
Oscar Underwood
Oscar Wilder Underwood (May 6, 1862 – January 25, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician from Alabama, and also a candidate for President of the United States in 1912 and 1924. He was the first formally designated floor leader in the Uni ...
(D)
Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
: 1.
Henry F. Ashurst (D)
: 3.
Ralph H. Cameron
Ralph Henry Cameron (October 21, 1863 – February 12, 1953) was an American businessman, prospector and politician who served as both Arizona Territory's Delegate to Congress and as an Arizona United States Senator. As a Territorial delegate, h ...
(R)
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...
: 2.
Joseph T. Robinson
Joseph Taylor Robinson (August 26, 1872 – July 14, 1937), also known as Joe T. Robinson, was an American politician from Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1913 to 1937, serving ...
(D)
: 3.
Thaddeus H. Caraway
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (October 17, 1871 – November 6, 1931) was a Democratic Party politician from the US state of Arkansas who represented the state first in the US House of Representatives from 1913 to 1921 and then in the US Senate fr ...
(D)
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
: 1.
Hiram Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866August 6, 1945) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917. Johnson achieved national prominence in the early 20th century. He was elected in 191 ...
(R)
: 3.
Samuel M. Shortridge
Samuel Morgan Shortridge (August 3, 1861January 15, 1952) was a Republican Senator from California.
Early years
He was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa and moved to California as a child with his family, which settled in San Jose in 1875. He p ...
(R)
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the ...
: 2.
Lawrence C. Phipps
Lawrence Cowle Phipps (August 30, 1862 – March 1, 1958) was a United States Senator representing Colorado from 1919 until 1931.
Biography
Lawrence Cowle Phipps was born on August 30, 1862 in Amity, Pennsylvania, the son of William Henry Phi ...
(R)
: 3.
Rice W. Means
Rice William Means (November 16, 1877January 30, 1949) was an American soldier and lawyer who became a Ku Klux Klan leader and a Republican United States Senator from Colorado.
Early life, education, and military service
Born in St. Joseph, ...
(R)
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the ...
: 1.
George P. McLean
George Payne McLean (October 7, 1857 – June 6, 1932) was the 59th Governor of Connecticut, and a United States senator from Connecticut.
Biography
McLean was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, one of five children of Dudley B. McLean and Mary ...
(R)
: 3.
Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham III (November 19, 1875 – June 6, 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician. He made public the existence of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers. Later, Bingham s ...
(R)
Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent ...
: 1.
Thomas F. Bayard Jr.
Thomas Francis Bayard Jr. (June 4, 1868 – July 12, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Delaware in the 1920s.
Early life
Bayard was born in Wilmington, Delaware, son o ...
(D)
: 2.
T. Coleman du Pont
Thomas Coleman du Pont (December 11, 1863 – November 11, 1930) was an American engineer and politician, from Greenville, Delaware. He was President of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, and a member of the Republican Party who served part ...
(R)
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and ...
: 1.
Park Trammell (D)
: 3.
Duncan U. Fletcher
Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (January 6, 1859June 17, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history. He also served two terms as Mayor of Jacksonville a ...
(D)
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
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Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
* Related to the ...
: 2.
William J. Harris
William Julius Harris (February 3, 1868April 18, 1932) was a United States senator from the state of Georgia. He was a great-grandson of Charles Hooks, who had been a Representative from North Carolina, and son-in-law of Joseph Wheeler, Confe ...
(D)
: 3.
Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George (January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a longtime Democratic United States Senator from 1922 to 1957 and was President pro tempore of the United States Sena ...
(D)
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Monta ...
: 2.
William E. Borah
William Edgar Borah (June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940) was an outspoken Republican United States Senator, one of the best-known figures in Idaho's history. A progressive who served from 1907 until his death in 1940, Borah is often con ...
(R)
: 3.
Frank R. Gooding
Frank Robert Gooding (September 16, 1859June 24, 1928) was a Republican United States Senator and the seventh governor of Idaho. The city of Gooding and Gooding County, both in southern Idaho, are named for him.
Life and career
Born in the c ...
(R)
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rock ...
: 2.
Charles S. Deneen (R)
: 3.
William B. McKinley
William Brown McKinley (September 5, 1856December 7, 1926) was a U.S. Representative (1905–1913, 1915–1921) and United States Senator (1921–1926) from the State of Illinois. A member of the Republican Party, he was born near Petersburg, Il ...
(R), until December 7, 1926
Frank L. Smith
Frank Leslie Smith (November 24, 1867 – August 30, 1950) was an Illinois politician.
Biography
Smith was born in Dwight, Illinois, in Livingston County He served as a United States Congressman from 1919 to 1921.
Career
Smith first ran ...
(R-IL) was elected to the Senate for the term starting March 4, 1927, and when McKinley died he was appointed to finish McKinley's term. The Senate refused to qualify him due to charges of corruption concerning his election. He would later resign. See http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000534.
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th ...
: 1.
Samuel M. Ralston (D), until October 14, 1925
::
Arthur R. Robinson (R), from October 20, 1925
: 3.
James E. Watson
James Eli Watson (November 2, 1864July 29, 1948) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Indiana. He was the Senate's second official majority leader. While an article published by the Senate (see References) gives his year of birth as ...
(R)
Iowa
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...
: 2.
Smith W. Brookhart
Smith Wildman Brookhart (February 2, 1869November 15, 1944), was twice elected as a Republican to represent Iowa in the United States Senate. He was considered an "insurgent" within the Republican Party. His criticisms of the Harding and the ...
(R), until April 12, 1926
::
Daniel F. Steck (D), from April 12, 1926
: 3.
Albert B. Cummins (R), until July 30, 1926
::
David W. Stewart
David Wallace Stewart (January 22, 1887February 10, 1974) served as a United States senator from Iowa from August 7, 1926, until March 3, 1927, serving out the unexpired term of a senator who died soon after he was defeated for re-election in a R ...
(R), from August 7, 1926
Kansas
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...
: 2.
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radi ...
(R)
: 3.
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Sena ...
(R)
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...
: 2.
Frederic M. Sackett
Frederic Mosley Sackett (December 17, 1868May 18, 1941) served as a United States senator from Kentucky and ambassador to Germany during the Hoover Administration.
Early life
He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His father, also named Fr ...
(R)
: 3.
Richard P. Ernst (R)
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bord ...
: 2.
Joseph E. Ransdell (D)
: 3.
Edwin S. Broussard
Edwin Sidney Broussard Sr. (December 4, 1874 – November 19, 1934), was a United States senator from Louisiana, who served for two terms from March 5, 1921, to March 3, 1933.
Early life
Broussard was born in the village of Loreauville, Lou ...
(D)
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and nor ...
: 1.
Frederick Hale (R)
: 2.
Bert M. Fernald (R), until August 23, 1926
::
Arthur R. Gould
Arthur Robinson Gould (March 16, 1857July 24, 1946) was a United States senator from Maine.
Biography
Born in Corinth, Maine, he attended the common schools and East Corinth Academy. He moved first to Bangor, Maine, where he opened a candy fac ...
(R), from November 30, 1926
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean t ...
: 1.
William Cabell Bruce
William Cabell Bruce (March 12, 1860May 9, 1946) was an American politician and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who represented the State of Maryland in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1929.
Background
Bruce was born in Charlotte County, V ...
(D)
: 3.
Ovington Weller
Ovington Eugene Weller (January 23, 1862 – January 5, 1947) was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1921 to 1927.
Early life
Weller was born in Reisterstown, Maryland, and attended the publi ...
(R)
Massachusetts
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: 1.
William M. Butler
William Morgan Butler (January 29, 1861March 29, 1937) was a lawyer and legislator for the State of Massachusetts, and a United States Senator.
Biography
Butler was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he attended the public school and stud ...
(R), until December 6, 1926
::
David I. Walsh (D), from December 6, 1926
: 2.
Frederick H. Gillett (R)
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and t ...
: 1.
Woodbridge N. Ferris (D)
: 2.
James J. Couzens
James J. Couzens (August 26, 1872October 22, 1936) was an American businessman, politician and philanthropist. He served as mayor of Detroit (1919–1922) and U.S. Senator from Michigan (1922–1936). Prior to entering politics he served as vice ...
(R)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over t ...
: 1.
Henrik Shipstead
Henrik Shipstead (January 8, 1881June 26, 1960) was an American politician. He served in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1947, from the state of Minnesota. He served first as a member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party from 1923 to 1941 an ...
(FL)
: 2.
Thomas D. Schall
Thomas David Schall (June 4, 1878December 22, 1935) was an American lawyer and politician. He served in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota. He was initially elected and then re-elected as a ...
(R)
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
: 1.
Hubert D. Stephens
Hubert Durrett Stephens (July 2, 1875March 14, 1946) was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Mississippi from 1923 until 1935.
Stephens was born in New Albany, Mississippi. He graduated from the Universi ...
(D)
: 2.
Pat Harrison
Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison (August 29, 1881June 22, 1941) was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death.
Early l ...
(D)
Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
: 1.
James A. Reed (D)
: 3.
Selden P. Spencer
Selden Palmer Spencer (September 16, 1862May 16, 1925) was an American lawyer and politician. A Republican, he was a United States Senator from Missouri.
Early life
Selden Spencer was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Samuel Selden and Eliza Debo ...
(R), until May 16, 1925
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George H. Williams (R), May 25, 1925 – December 6, 1926
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Harry B. Hawes
Harry Bartow Hawes (November 15, 1869 – July 31, 1947) was an American lawyer, conservationist, and politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House and Senate from Missouri. He is best known for the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act, ...
(D), from December 6, 1926
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
: 1.
Burton K. Wheeler (D)
: 2.
Thomas J. Walsh
Thomas James Walsh (June 12, 1859March 2, 1933) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Helena, Montana who represented Montana in the US Senate from 1913 to 1933. He was initially elected by the state legislature, and from 1 ...
(D)
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
: 1.
Robert B. Howell
Robert Beecher Howell (January 21, 1864 March 11, 1933) was an American politician. He was born in Adrian, Michigan. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1885. Afterwards, he went to the Detroit School of ...
(R)
: 2.
George W. Norris
George William Norris (July 11, 1861September 2, 1944) was an American politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican, from 1903 until ...
(R)
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
: 1.
Key Pittman (D)
: 3.
Tasker Oddie (R)
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
: 2.
Henry W. Keyes (R)
: 3.
George H. Moses
George Higgins Moses (February 9, 1869December 20, 1944) was a U.S. diplomat and political figure. He served as a United States senator from New Hampshire and was chosen as the Senate's President pro tempore.
Biography
George H. Moses was born ...
(R)
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delawa ...
: 1.
Edward I. Edwards (D)
: 2.
Walter E. Edge (R)
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex
, Offi ...
: 1.
Andrieus A. Jones
Andrieus Aristieus Jones (May 16, 1862December 20, 1927) was an American politician from New Mexico who represented the state in the United States Senate from 1917 until his death in 1927.
Early life and education
Jones was born in Obion County, ...
(D)
: 2.
Sam G. Bratton
Samuel Gilbert Bratton (August 19, 1888 – September 22, 1963) was a United States senator from New Mexico and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Education and career
Born in Kosse, ...
(D)
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
: 1.
Royal S. Copeland
Royal Samuel Copeland (November 7, 1868June 17, 1938), a United States Senator from New York from 1923 until 1938, was an academic, homeopathic physician, and politician. He held elected offices in both Michigan (as a Republican) and New Y ...
(D)
: 3.
James W. Wadsworth Jr.
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (August 12, 1877June 21, 1952) was an American politician, a Republican from New York. He was the son of New York State Comptroller James Wolcott Wadsworth, and the grandson of Union General James S. Wadsworth.
Ear ...
(R)
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 28th largest and List of states and territories of the United ...
: 2.
Furnifold M. Simmons
Furnifold McLendel Simmons (January 20, 1854April 30, 1940) was an American politicians who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1887 to March 4, 1889 and U.S. senator from the state of North ...
(D)
: 3.
Lee S. Overman (D)
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, ...
: 1.
Lynn Frazier
Lynn Joseph Frazier (December 21, 1874January 11, 1947) was an American educator and politician who served as the 12th Governor of North Dakota from 1917 until being recalled in 1921 and later served as a U.S. Senator from North Dakota from 19 ...
(R-NPL)
: 3.
Edwin F. Ladd
Edwin Fremont Ladd (December 13, 1859June 22, 1925) was an American chemist, academic administrator, and politician. While serving in the United States Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Public Roads and Surveys during the sixty-eighth C ...
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Gerald Nye
Gerald Prentice Nye (December 19, 1892 – July 17, 1971) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1925 to 1945. He was a Republican and supporter of World War II-era isolationism, chairing the N ...
(R), from November 14, 1925
Ohio
Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-l ...
: 1.
Simeon D. Fess
Simeon Davison Fess (December 11, 1861December 23, 1936) was a Republican politician and educator from Ohio, United States. He served in the United States House of Representatives (1915 to 1923) and U.S. Senate (1923 to 1935).
Early life
Born o ...
(R)
: 3.
Frank B. Willis
Frank Bartlett Willis (December 28, 1871March 30, 1928) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Republican from Ohio. He served as the 47th governor of Ohio from 1915 to 1917, then served as a U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1921 until his ...
(R)
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...
: 2.
William B. Pine (R)
: 3.
John W. Harreld
John William Harreld (January 24, 1872December 26, 1950) was a United States representative and Senator from Oklahoma. Harreld was the first Republican senator elected in Oklahoma and represented a shift in Oklahoma politics.Gaddie, Ronald Keit ...
(R)
Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
: 2.
Charles L. McNary (R)
: 3.
Robert N. Stanfield
Robert Nelson Stanfield Jr (July 9, 1877April 13, 1945) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician and rancher from the state of Oregon who served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1912–18) including as Spe ...
(R)
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
: 1.
David A. Reed
David Aiken Reed (December 21, 1880February 10, 1953) was an American lawyer and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1922 to 1935. He was a co-author of the restr ...
(R)
: 3.
George Wharton Pepper
George Wharton Pepper (March 16, 1867May 24, 1961) was an American lawyer, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Christian activist, and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in ...
(R)
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...
: 1.
Peter G. Gerry
Peter Goelet Gerry (September 18, 1879 – October 31, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and later, as a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island. He is the only U.S. Senator in American h ...
(D)
: 2.
Jesse H. Metcalf (R)
South Carolina
)''Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no)
, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = ...
: 2.
Coleman L. Blease (D)
: 3.
Ellison D. Smith (D)
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large po ...
: 2.
William H. McMaster
William Henry McMaster (May 10, 1877September 14, 1968) was an American Republican politician who served as the tenth Governor of South Dakota, serving from 1921 until 1925. He also served as a member of the United States Senate from South Dako ...
(R)
: 3.
Peter Norbeck
Peter Norbeck (August 27, 1870December 20, 1936) was an American politician from South Dakota. After serving two terms as the ninth Governor of South Dakota, Norbeck was elected to three consecutive terms as a United States Senator. Norbeck was ...
(R)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 36th-largest by ...
: 1.
Kenneth McKellar (D)
: 2.
Lawrence Tyson
Lawrence Davis Tyson (July 4, 1861August 24, 1929) was an American general, politician and textile manufacturer, operating primarily out of Knoxville, Tennessee, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As s btigadier general, he commanded ...
(D)
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
: 1.
Earle B. Mayfield (D)
: 2.
Morris Sheppard
John Morris Sheppard (May 28, 1875April 9, 1941) was a Democratic United States Congressman and United States Senator from Texas. He authored the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) and introduced it in the Senate, and is referred to as "the fa ...
(D)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...
: 1.
William H. King (D)
: 3.
Reed Smoot
Reed Smoot (January 10, 1862February 9, 1941) was an American politician, businessman, and apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). First elected by the Utah State Legislature to the U.S. Senate in 1902, he serv ...
(R)
Vermont
Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York (state), New York to the west, and the Provin ...
: 1.
Frank L. Greene
Frank Lester Greene (February 10, 1870December 17, 1930) was a Vermont newspaper editor and militia officer. He is most notable for his service as a United States Representative and Senator.
A native of St. Albans, Vermont, he was educated in ...
(R)
: 3.
Porter H. Dale
Porter Hinman Dale (March 1, 1867October 6, 1933) was a member of both the United States House of Representatives and later the United States Senate from Vermont.
Early life and career
The son of Lieutenant Governor George N. Dale and Helen (Hi ...
(R)
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...
: 1.
Claude A. Swanson (D)
: 2.
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Treas ...
(D)
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
: 1.
Clarence Dill
Clarence Cleveland Dill (September 21, 1884January 14, 1978) was an American politician from the state of Washington. A Democrat, he was elected to two terms each in both houses of Congress.
Early years
Dill was born in Fredericktown, Ohi ...
(D)
: 3.
Wesley L. Jones
Wesley Livsey Jones (October 9, 1863November 19, 1932) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate representing the state of Washington.
Born near Bethany, Illinois days af ...
(R)
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the ...
: 1.
Guy D. Goff
Guy Despard Goff (September 13, 1866January 7, 1933) was an American lawyer and politician - who served as a United States senator from West Virginia. Earlier in his career, he was United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and ...
(R)
: 2.
Matthew M. Neely
Matthew Mansfield Neely (November 9, 1874January 18, 1958) was an American Democratic politician from West Virginia. He is the only West Virginian to serve in both houses of the United States Congress and as the Governor of West Virginia. He is ...
(D)
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
: 1.
Robert M. La Follette Sr.
Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855June 18, 1925), was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the 20th Governor of Wisconsin. A Republican for most of his ...
(R), until June 18, 1925
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Robert M. La Follette Jr. (R), from September 30, 1925
: 3.
Irvine Lenroot (R)
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to t ...
: 1.
John B. Kendrick
John Benjamin Kendrick (September 6, 1857 – November 3, 1933) was an American politician and cattleman who served as a United States senator from Wyoming and as the ninth Governor of Wyoming as a member of the Democratic Party.
Early life
...
(D)
: 2.
Francis E. Warren (R)
House of Representatives
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = " Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
, area_total_km2 = 135,7 ...
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John McDuffie
John McDuffie (September 25, 1883 – November 1, 1950) was a United States representative from Alabama and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Education and career
Born on ...
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: .
J. Lister Hill
Joseph Lister Hill (December 29, 1894 – December 20, 1984) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Alabama in the U.S. Congress for more than forty-five years, as both a U.S. Representative (1923–1938) ...
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Henry B. Steagall (D)
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Lamar Jeffers (D)
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William B. Bowling
William Bismarck Bowling (September 24, 1870 – December 27, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Iron City, Calhoun County, Alabama to William and Sarah Elston Bowling, William Bismarck Bowling attended the common schools, ...
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William B. Oliver (D)
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Miles C. Allgood
Miles Clayton Allgood (February 22, 1878 – March 4, 1977) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Biography
Born in Chepultepec (now Allgood), Blount County, Alabama, Allgood was the son of William Barnett and Mary ...
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Edward B. Almon
Edward Berton Almon (April 18, 1860 – June 22, 1933) was an American, and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives who represented northwest Alabama's 8th congressional district.
Early life
Almon was born near Moult ...
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George Huddleston (D)
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William B. Bankhead
William Brockman Bankhead (April 12, 1874 – September 15, 1940) was an American politician who served as the 42nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940, representing Alabama's 10th and later 7th congressiona ...
(D)
Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
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Carl Hayden
Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician. Representing Arizona in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1969, he was the first U.S. Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as the state's first Represe ...
(D)
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...
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William J. Driver
William Joshua Driver (March 2, 1873 – October 1, 1948) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.
Biography
Born near Osceola, Arkansas, Driver was the son of John B. and Margaret Ann Bowen Driver and attended the pu ...
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William A. Oldfield
William Allan Oldfield (February 4, 1874 – November 19, 1928) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1909 until his death.
Early life
Born in Franklin, Arkansas, Oldfield was the son of b ...
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John N. Tillman
John Newton Tillman (December 13, 1859 – March 9, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. In the Arkansas State Senate he proposed the Separate Coach Law of 1891, a Jim Crow law to segregate African American passengers. The bill became ...
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Otis Wingo
Otis Theodore Wingo (June 18, 1877 – October 21, 1930) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 1913 to 1930. He was the husband of his successor in office, Effie ...
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Heartsill Ragon (D)
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James B. Reed (D)
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Tilman B. Parks (D)
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
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Clarence F. Lea
Clarence Frederick Lea (July 11, 1874 – June 20, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician who served 16 terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1917 to 1949.
Biography
Lea was born near Highland Springs, California, in southwe ...
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John E. Raker
John Edward Raker (February 22, 1863 – January 22, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic Party Congressional representative for California, serving eight terms from 1911 to 1926.
Life
He was born near Knox ...
(D), until January 22, 1926
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Harry L. Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House Minority Whip between 1933 and 1943.
Englebright ...
(R), from August 31, 1926
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Charles F. Curry
Charles Forrest Curry (March 14, 1858 – October 10, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from California and the father of Charles Forrest Curry, Jr.
Curry was born in Naperville, Illinois and attended the common schools and the Episcopal Ac ...
(R)
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Florence P. Kahn (R)
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Lawrence J. Flaherty
Lawrence James Flaherty (July 4, 1878 – June 13, 1926) was an American politician who served part of one term as a U.S. Representative from California from 1925 until his death in 1926.
Biography
Born in San Mateo, California, Flaherty move ...
(R), until June 13, 1926
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Richard J. Welch
Richard Joseph Welch (February 13, 1869 – September 10, 1949) was an American county clerk and politician. He sat in the United States House of Representatives for 12 terms from 1926 to 1949, serving a district in San Francisco, California. B ...
(R), from August 31, 1926
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Albert E. Carter
Albert Edward Carter (July 5, 1881 – August 8, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician who served ten terms as a Republican United States Representative from California from 1925 to 1945.
Early life and career
Carter was born in Lemon ...
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Henry E. Barbour
Henry Ellsworth Barbour (March 8, 1877 – March 21, 1945) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1919 to 1931.
Biography
Born in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York, ...
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Arthur M. Free
Arthur Monroe Free (January 15, 1879 – April 1, 1953) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a United States representative from California from 1921 to 1933.
Biography
He was born in San Jose, California and graduated ...
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Walter F. Lineberger
Walter Franklin Lineberger (July 20, 1883 – October 9, 1943) was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from California from 1921 to 1927.
Early life and career
Born near Whiteville, Tennessee, Lineberger a ...
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John D. Fredericks
John Donnan Fredericks (September 10, 1869 – August 26, 1945) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1923 to 1927.
Biography
Born in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, Frederic ...
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Phil Swing
Philip David Swing (November 30, 1884 – August 8, 1963) was an American Republican politician from Imperial County, California. He served six terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 to 1933.
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Colorado
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William N. Vaile
William Newell Vaile (June 22, 1876 – July 2, 1927) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.
Born in Kokomo, Indiana, Vaile moved with his parents to Denver, Colorado, in 1881. Vaile was of English descent., p.262. He attended the public s ...
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Charles B. Timberlake
Charles Bateman Timberlake (September 25, 1854 – May 31, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.
Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Timberlake attended the common schools and Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
Richmond is a city in easter ...
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Guy U. Hardy (R)
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Edward T. Taylor (D)
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the ...
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E. Hart Fenn
Edward Hart Fenn (September 12, 1856 – February 23, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Biography
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Fenn attended private schools, Hartford High School, and Yale University. Associated with ...
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: .
Richard P. Freeman
Richard Patrick Freeman (April 24, 1869 – July 8, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Biography
Born in New London, Connecticut, Freeman attended the public schools.
He was graduated from Bulkeley High School at New Londo ...
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John Q. Tilson
John Quillin Tilson (April 5, 1866 – August 14, 1958) was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives for almost 22 years and was House Majority leader for 6 years.
Early lif ...
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Schuyler Merritt
Schuyler Merritt (December 16, 1853 – April 1, 1953) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives
from Connecticut's 4th congressional district from 1917 to 1931 and 1933 to 1937. He is the namesake of the Merritt Par ...
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James P. Glynn
James Peter Glynn (November 12, 1867 – March 6, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Born in Winsted, Connecticut, the son of Irish immigrants,
Glynn attended the public schools.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1 ...
(R)
Delaware
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Robert G. Houston
Robert Griffith Houston (October 13, 1867 – January 29, 1946) was an American lawyer, publisher and politician from Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served four terms as U.S. Representat ...
(R)
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and ...
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Herbert J. Drane
Herbert Jackson Drane (June 20, 1863 – August 11, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Born in Franklin, Kentucky, Drane attended the public schools of Louisville, Kentucky, and Brevards Academy at Franklin, Kentucky.
He moved to Ma ...
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Robert A. Green (D)
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John H. Smithwick
John Harris Smithwick (July 17, 1872 – December 2, 1948) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Florida from 1919 to 1927.
Biography
Smithwick was born near Orange, Georgia and attended t ...
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William J. Sears
William Joseph Sears (December 4, 1874 – March 30, 1944) was a lawyer and U.S. Representative from Florida. A Democrat, he was an avowed white supremacist.
Early life and education
Born in Smithville, Georgia, Sears moved with his paren ...
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Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
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Charles G. Edwards
Charles Gordon Edwards (July 2, 1878 – July 13, 1931) was an American political figure from the state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia.
Early years and education
Edwards was born in Daisy, Georgia, Daisy, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia i ...
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Edward E. Cox (D)
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Charles R. Crisp
Charles Robert Crisp (October 19, 1870 – February 7, 1937) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia, son of Charles Frederick Crisp.
Life
Born in Ellaville, Georgia, Crisp attended the public schools of Americus, Georgia.
He served as cle ...
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William C. Wright
William Carter Wright (January 6, 1866 – June 11, 1933) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
Born on a farm in Carroll County, Georgia, Wright moved with his parents to Newnan, Georgia, in 1869.
He attended the common and high schools o ...
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William D. Upshaw
William David Upshaw (October 15, 1866 – November 21, 1952) served eight years in Congress (1919–1927), where he was such a strong proponent of the temperance movement that he became known as the "driest of the drys." In Congress, Upshaw ...
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Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford (also Rutherfurd or Rutherfoord; – 29 March 1661) was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor and theologian who wrote widely read letters, sermons, devotional and scholastic works. As a political theorist, he is known for " ...
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Gordon Lee Gordon Lee may refer to:
*Gordon Lee (comic store owner) (1958–2013), American comic book store owner charged with distributing obscene materials
*Gordon Lee (congressman) (1859–1927), U.S. congressman from Georgia
*Gordon Lee (footballer) (193 ...
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Charles H. Brand
Charles Hillyer Brand (April 20, 1861 – May 17, 1933) was an American politician, businessman, jurist and lawyer.
Biography
Brand was born in Loganville, Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia in Athens in 1881. He was admitte ...
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Thomas M. Bell (D)
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Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson (November 18, 1883 – June 1, 1981) was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th century expansion of the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Democratic ...
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William C. Lankford (D)
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William W. Larsen (D)
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Monta ...
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Burton L. French
Burton Lee French (August 1, 1875 – September 12, 1954) was a congressman from Idaho. French served as a Republican in the House from 1903 to 1909, 1911 to 1915 and 1917 to 1933. With a combined 26 years in office, he remains the longest-s ...
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Addison T. Smith
Addison Taylor Smith (September 5, 1862 – July 5, 1956) was a congressman from Idaho. Smith served as a Republican in the U.S. House for ten terms, from 1913 to 1933.
Born in Cambridge, Ohio, Smith began his political career in 1891 in Washin ...
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Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rock ...
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Henry R. Rathbone
Henry Riggs Rathbone (February 12, 1870 – July 15, 1928) was a United States House of Representatives, congressman from Illinois.
Rathbone was born in Washington, D.C., to Brevet Colonel Henry Rathbone, Henry Reed Rathbone and Clara Harri ...
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Richard Yates (R)
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Martin B. Madden (R)
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Morton D. Hull (R)
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Elliott W. Sproul
Elliott Wilford Sproul (December 28, 1856 – June 22, 1935) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Biography
Born in Apohaqui, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada, Sproul attended the public schools. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts in ...
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Thomas A. Doyle (D)
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Adolph J. Sabath
Adolph Joachim Sabath (April 4, 1866 – November 6, 1952) was an American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death in Bethesda, Maryland on November 6, 1952. From 19 ...
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John J. Gorman (R)
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M. Alfred Michaelson
Magne Alfred Michaelson (September 7, 1878 – October 26, 1949) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Background
Magne Alfred Michaelson was born at Kristiansand in Vest-Agder, Norway. In October 1885, Michaelson immigrated to the United S ...
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Stanley H. Kunz (D)
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Frederick A. Britten
Frederick Albert Britten (November 18, 1871 – May 4, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Early life
Frederick Albert Britten was born on November 18, 1871, in Chicago, Illinois. Britten attended Heald's Business College, San Franc ...
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Carl R. Chindblom
Carl Richard Chindblom (December 21, 1870 – September 12, 1956) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois to Swedish immigrant parents, Chindblom attended public schools. He was graduated from Augustana ...
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Frank R. Reid
Frank R. Reid (April 18, 1879 – January 25, 1945) was an American politician and U.S. Representative from Illinois. He was christened without a middle name and chose the letter "R" for an initial.Waller, Douglas C. (2004). ''A Question of Loy ...
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Charles E. Fuller Charles Fuller (1939–2022) was an American playwright and writer.
Charles Fuller may also refer to:
* Charles Fuller (footballer) (1919–2004), English footballer
* Charles E. Fuller (Baptist minister) (1887–1968), American Christian clergyma ...
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William R. Johnson
William R. Johnson is an American businessman and is the former president, CEO and chairman of H. J. Heinz.
He worked at Drackett as an assistant product manager for Behold furniture polish, starting at $13,000 a year. He worked at Ralston Pu ...
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John C. Allen (R)
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Edward J. King (R)
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William E. Hull
William Edgar Hull (January 13, 1866 – May 30, 1942) was an American businessman and politician. He served as U.S. Representative from Illinois for five terms.
Born in Lewistown, Illinois, Hull attended the common schools, Lewistown High Sc ...
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Frank H. Funk
Frank Hamilton Funk (April 5, 1869 – November 24, 1940) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, son of Benjamin F. Funk and grandson of Isaac Funk.
Born in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, Funk attended the public schools and the Ill ...
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William P. Holaday (R)
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Charles Adkins (R)
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Henry T. Rainey
Henry Thomas Rainey (August 20, 1860 – August 19, 1934) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party from Illinois, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1921 and from 1923 to his death. He rose t ...
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Loren E. Wheeler
Loren Edgar Wheeler (October 7, 1862 – January 8, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Havana, Illinois, Wheeler attended the public schools and Graylock Institute, South Williamstown, Massachusetts. He moved to Springfield ...
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Edward M. Irwin (R)
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William W. Arnold
William Wright Arnold (October 14, 1877 – November 23, 1957) was an American politician and jurist, serving as a U.S. representative from Illinois and a judge of the United States Tax Court.
Life and career
Born in Oblong, Illinois, Arnold ...
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Thomas S. Williams (R)
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Edward E. Denison
Edward Everett Denison (August 28, 1873 – June 17, 1953) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Early life
Born in Marion, Illinois, Denison attended the public schools. He was graduated from Baylor University, Waco, Texas, in 1895, ...
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Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th ...
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Harry E. Rowbottom (R)
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Arthur H. Greenwood
Arthur Herbert Greenwood (January 31, 1880 – April 26, 1963) was a United States Representative ( D) for Indiana for 2nd District from 1923–1933 and for the 7th District 1933–1939. Greenwood was defeated in 1938.
The Baptist lawyer, farmer ...
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Frank Gardner (D)
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Harry C. Canfield (D)
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Noble J. Johnson
Noble Jacob Johnson (August 23, 1887 – March 17, 1968) was a United States representative from Indiana and an Associate Judge and Chief Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
Education and career
Born in Terre Haute ...
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Richard N. Elliott
Richard Nash Elliott (April 25, 1873 – March 21, 1948) was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1917 to 1931.
Early life and career
Born near Connersville, Indiana, Elliott atten ...
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Ralph E. Updike
Ralph Eugene Updike (May 27, 1894 – September 16, 1953) was an American lawyer, jurist, World War I and World War II veteran, and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1925 to 1929.
Biography
Born in ...
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Albert H. Vestal
Albert Henry Vestal (January 18, 1875 – April 1, 1932) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a Republican United States Representative from Indiana from 1917 to 1932.
Biography
Born on a farm near Frankton, in Madiso ...
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Fred S. Purnell
Fred Sampson Purnell (October 25, 1882 – October 21, 1939) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1917 to 1933.
Biography
Born on a farm near Veedersburg, Indiana, Purnell att ...
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William R. Wood (R)
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Albert R. Hall (R)
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David Hogg (R)
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Andrew J. Hickey (R)
Iowa
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...
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William F. Kopp
William Frederick Kopp (June 20, 1869 – August 24, 1938) was a six-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district.
Born near Dodgeville, Iowa, Kopp attended the common schools. He was graduated from Iowa Wesleyan C ...
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F. Dickinson Letts
Fred Dickinson Letts (April 26, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a United States representative from Iowa, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Education and career
Born on April 26, ...
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Thomas J. B. Robinson (R)
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Gilbert N. Haugen
Gilbert Nelson Haugen (April 21, 1859 – July 18, 1933) was a seventeen-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district, then located in northeastern Iowa. For nearly five years, he was the longest-serving member o ...
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Cyrenus Cole
Cyrenus Cole (January 13, 1863 – November 14, 1939) was a newspaper editor, columnist and historian, then a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 5th congressional district for over eleven years.
Born near Pella, Iowa, Cole graduated fro ...
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C. William Ramseyer (R)
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Cassius C. Dowell (R)
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Lloyd Thurston
Lloyd Thurston (March 27, 1880 – May 7, 1970) was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from southern Iowa. First elected in 1924, he served until 1938, when he unsuccessfully sought election to the U.S. Senate. By his final term, he had s ...
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William R. Green
William Raymond Green (November 7, 1856 – June 11, 1947) was a United States representative from Iowa, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and later was a judge of the Court of Claims. His son, William R. Green Jr., served on the ...
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Lester J. Dickinson
Lester Jesse ("L. J." or "Dick") Dickinson (October 29, 1873June 4, 1968) was a Republican United States Representative and Senator from Iowa. He was, in the words of ''Time'' magazine, "a big, friendly, white-thatched Iowa lawyer." (R)
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William D. Boies (R)
Kansas
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...
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Daniel R. Anthony Jr.
Daniel Read Anthony Jr. (August 22, 1870 – August 4, 1931) was an American Republican politician and a nephew of suffragist and political leader Susan B. Anthony.
He is the son of newspaper publisher Daniel Read Anthony. He was born in ...
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Chauncey B. Little (D)
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William H. Sproul
William Henry Sproul (October 14, 1867 – December 27, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born on a farm near Livingston, Tennessee, Sproul attended the public schools and Alpine Academy in Overton County, Tennessee. In 1883 moved to ...
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Homer Hoch
Homer Hoch (July 4, 1879 – January 30, 1949) was a United States Representative from Kansas.
Biography
Born in Marion, Kansas, Hoch graduated from Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, in 1902. He attended George Washington Law School, Washingt ...
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James G. Strong
James George Strong (April 23, 1870 – January 11, 1938) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born in Dwight, Illinois, Strong attended the public schools of Dwight, Illinois from 1876 to 1879, the Episcopal Mission of Greenwood Agency, S.Da ...
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Hays B. White
Hays Baxter White (September 21, 1855 – September 29, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born near Fairfield, Iowa, White attended the rural schools of his native county. He engaged in agricultural pursuits. He moved to Jewell Count ...
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Jasper N. Tincher
Jasper Napoleon Tincher (November 2, 1878 – November 6, 1951) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born near Browning, Missouri, Tincher moved with his parents to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, in 1892.
He attended the common and high schools.
H ...
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William A. Ayres (D)
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...
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Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...
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David H. Kincheloe (D)
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Robert Y. Thomas Jr.
Robert Young Thomas Jr. (July 13, 1855 – September 3, 1925) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born near Russellville, Kentucky, Thomas attended the common schools, and was graduated from Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, in 1878. ...
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John W. Moore (D), from December 26, 1925
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Ben Johnson Ben, Benjamin or Benny Johnson may refer to:
In sports Association football
* Ben Johnson (footballer, born 2000), English footballer
* Ben Johnson (soccer) (born 1977), American soccer player
Other codes of football
*Ben Johnson (Australian foot ...
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Maurice Thatcher
Maurice Hudson Thatcher (August 15, 1870January 6, 1973) was a U.S. Congressman. Thatcher was elected to United States Congress, Congress in 1922 from Kentucky. He served until 1933.
Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Thatcher's family moved ...
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Arthur B. Rouse
Arthur Blythe Rouse (June 20, 1874 – January 25, 1956) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Early life
Born in Burlington, Kentucky, Rouse attended the public schools, graduating from Boone County High School. He was graduated from Hanov ...
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Virgil Chapman
Virgil Munday Chapman (March 15, 1895March 8, 1951) was an American attorney and Democratic politician who represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and in the United States Senate.
Chapman, originally from Middleto ...
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Ralph W. E. Gilbert (D)
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Fred M. Vinson
Frederick "Fred" Moore Vinson (January 22, 1890 – September 8, 1953) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th chief justice of the United States from 1946 until his death in 1953. Vinson was one of the few Americans to ...
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John W. Langley
John Wesley Langley (January 14, 1868 – January 17, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, husband of Katherine Gudger Langley.
Born in Floyd County, Kentucky, Langley attended the common schools and then taught school for three years ...
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Andrew J. Kirk (R), from February 13, 1926
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John M. Robsion
John Marshall Robsion (January 2, 1873February 17, 1948), a Republican, represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Robsion was born in Berlin, Kentucky. He attended National Northern ...
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Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bord ...
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James O'Connor James O'Connor may refer to:
Politics and law
* James O'Connor (Louisiana politician) (1870–1941), U.S Representative from Louisiana
* James F. O'Connor (1878–1945), U.S Representative from Montana
* James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor (1886–1 ...
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James Z. Spearing (D)
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Whitmell P. Martin
Whitmell Pugh Martin (August 12, 1867 – April 6, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana. Although he later served most of his congressional career as a Democrat, Martin was first elected as a "Bull Moose" Progressive in 1914. H ...
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John N. Sandlin
John Nicholas Sandlin (February 24, 1872 – December 25, 1957) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served eight terms as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1921 to 1937.
Early life and career
John Sandlin was born near M ...
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Riley J. Wilson
Riley Joseph Wilson (November 12, 1871 – February 23, 1946) was a Louisiana educator, attorney and legislator in the first half of the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. A Democrat, Wilson served in the United States ...
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Bolivar E. Kemp (D)
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Ladislas Lazaro
Ladislas Lazaro (June 5, 1872 – March 30, 1927) was an American politician who served as a Democrat U.S. Representative from from 1913 to 1927.
Biography
Born near Ville Platte, Evangeline (then part of St. Landry) Parish, Louisiana, Lazar ...
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James B. Aswell
James Benjamin Aswell Sr. (December 23, 1869 – March 16, 1931) was a prominent educator and a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic U.S. representative from Louisiana, who served from 1913 until his death, which occurred twelve days in ...
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Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and nor ...
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Carroll L. Beedy
Carroll Lynwood Beedy (August 3, 1880 – August 30, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Maine from 1921 to 1935.
He was born in Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, on August 3, 1880. He attended the public schools of Lewiston, Androscoggin ...
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Wallace H. White Jr.
Wallace Humphrey White Jr. (August 6, 1877March 31, 1952) was an American politician and Republican leader in the United States Congress from 1917 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representative ...
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John E. Nelson (R)
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Ira G. Hersey
Ira Greenlief Hersey (March 31, 1858 – May 6, 1943) was a politician from Hodgdon, Maine, who served in the Maine House of Representatives, the Maine State Senate, and most notably in the United States Congress as a Representative for the U.S ...
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Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean t ...
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T. Alan Goldsborough
Thomas Alan Goldsborough (September 16, 1877 – June 16, 1951) was a United States representative from Maryland and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Education and career
Born i ...
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Millard Tydings
Millard Evelyn Tydings (April 6, 1890February 9, 1961) was an American attorney, author, soldier, state legislator, and served as a Democratic Representative and Senator in the United States Congress from Maryland, serving in the House from 19 ...
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John Philip Hill (R)
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J. Charles Linthicum
John Charles Linthicum (November 26, 1867–October 5, 1932) was a U.S. Congressman from the 4th Congressional district of Maryland, serving from 1911 to 1932.
Biography
Linthicum was born on 26 November 1867 near Baltimore, Maryland, i ...
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Stephen W. Gambrill
Stephen Warfield Gambrill (October 2, 1873 – December 19, 1938) was an American politician.
Early life
Born near Savage, Maryland, to Stephen Gambrill and Kate (Gorman) Gambrill, he attended the common schools and Maryland Agricultura ...
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Frederick N. Zihlman
Frederick Nicholas Zihlman (October 2, 1879 – April 22, 1935) was an American congressman representing Maryland's 6th congressional district from 1917 to 1931.
Biography
Born in Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, Zihlman moved ...
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts (Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut Massachusett_writing_systems.html" ;"title="nowiki/> məhswatʃəwiːsət.html" ;"title="Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət">Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət'' En ...
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Allen T. Treadway
Allen Towner Treadway (September 16, 1867 – February 16, 1947) was a Massachusetts Republican politician.
Biography
Treadway was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to William Denton Treadway and Harriet (Heaton) Treadway. Treadway graduate ...
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George B. Churchill (R), until July 1, 1925
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Henry L. Bowles (R), from September 29, 1925
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Frank H. Foss
Frank Herbert Foss (b. Augusta, Maine, September 20, 1865 – d. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, February 15, 1947) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.
He attended public schools in Augusta, Maine and graduated from Kent Hill (M ...
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George R. Stobbs (R)
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John Jacob Rogers
John Jacob Rogers (August 18, 1881 – March 28, 1925) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Life and career
Rogers was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard U ...
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Edith Nourse Rogers
Edith Rogers (née Nourse; March 19, 1881 – September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who served in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Until 2 ...
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Abram Andrew
Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. (February 12, 1873 – June 3, 1936) was an American economist and politician who served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the founder and director of the American Ambulance Field Service during World War I, and a ...
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William P. Connery Jr.
William Patrick Connery Jr. (August 24, 1888 – June 15, 1937) was a United States representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Lynn on August 24, 1888, the son of William P. Connery Sr. and brother of Lawrence Joseph Connery.
He attend ...
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Harry I. Thayer (R), until March 10, 1926
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Frederick W. Dallinger
Frederick William Dallinger (October 2, 1871 – September 5, 1955) was a United States representative from Massachusetts and a judge of the United States Customs Court.
Education and career
Born on October 2, 1871, in Cambridge, Middlesex Co ...
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Charles L. Underhill (R)
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John J. Douglass
John Joseph Douglass (February 9, 1873 – April 5, 1939) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Life and career
He was born in East Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on February 9, 1873. Douglass gr ...
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George Holden Tinkham (R)
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James A. Gallivan
James Ambrose Gallivan (October 22, 1866 – April 3, 1928) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Biography
Gallivan was born in Boston on October 22, 1866. He attended the public schools, graduated from the Boston Latin School ...
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Robert Luce
Robert Luce (December 2, 1862 – April 7, 1946) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Biography
Born in Auburn, Maine, Luce attended the public schools of Auburn and Lewiston, Maine, and Somerville, Massachusetts. He gra ...
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Louis A. Frothingham
Louis Adams Frothingham (July 13, 1871 – August 23, 1928) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Early life
Frothingham was born in Jamaica Plain on July 13, 1871. He attended the public schools and Adams Academy. He graduated ...
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Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph William Martin Jr. (November 3, 1884 – March 6, 1968) was an American Republican politician who served as the 44th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and 1953 to 1955. He represented a House district ...
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Charles L. Gifford
Charles Laceille Gifford (March 15, 1871 – August 23, 1947) was a United States representative from Massachusetts He was born in Cotuit on March 15, 1871. Through his father he was a descendant of Robert Pike, George Phillips, Richard Sal ...
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Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and t ...
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John B. Sosnowski
John Bartholomew Sosnowski (December 8, 1883 – July 16, 1968) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Sosnowski was born in a Polish family in Detroit, Michigan, and attended the parochial and Army schools. During the Spanish–Ameri ...
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Earl C. Michener
Earl Cory Michener (November 30, 1876 – July 4, 1957) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Michener had German ancestry. He was born near Attica in Seneca County, Ohio. He moved with his parents to Adrian, Michigan in 1889 and att ...
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Arthur B. Williams (R), until May 1, 1925
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Joseph L. Hooper (R), from August 18, 1925
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John C. Ketcham
John Clark Ketcham (January 1, 1873 – December 4, 1941) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Ketcham was born in Toledo, Ohio, and moved with his parents to Maple Grove, Michigan near Nashville, the same year. He attended the co ...
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Carl E. Mapes
Carl Edgar Mapes (December 26, 1874 – December 12, 1939) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Mapes was born on a farm near Kalamo, Michigan, to Selah W. and Sarah Ann (Brooks) Mapes. His father was born in New York and came with ...
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Grant M. Hudson
Grant Martin Hudson (July 23, 1868 – October 26, 1955) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Hudson was born in Eaton Township, Lorain County, Ohio. He attended the common schools and graduated from Kalamazoo College, Kalamaz ...
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Louis C. Cramton
Louis Convers Cramton (December 2, 1875 – June 23, 1966) was a politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Cramton was born in Hadley Township, Michigan and attended the common schools of Lapeer County. He graduated from Lapee ...
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Bird J. Vincent (R)
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James C. McLaughlin
James Campbell McLaughlin (January 26, 1858 – November 29, 1932) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
McLaughlin was born in Beardstown, Illinois. His parents, David and Isabella (Campbell) McLaughlin, had come from Edinburgh, Sco ...
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Roy O. Woodruff
Roy Orchard Woodruff (March 14, 1876 – February 12, 1953) was a politician, soldier, printer, and dentist from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Woodruff was born of English and Scottish ancestry to Charles Woodruff and Electa A. (Wallace) Woodruff ...
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Frank D. Scott
Frank Douglas Scott (August 25, 1878 – February 12, 1951) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Scott was born of Scottish ancestry in Alpena, Michigan, attended the public schools and graduated from the law department of the Unive ...
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W. Frank James (R)
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Clarence J. McLeod (R)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over t ...
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Allen J. Furlow (R)
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Frank Clague
Frank Andrew Clague (July 13, 1865 – March 25, 1952) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota. He was born in Warrensville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; attended the common schools; moved to Minnesota in 1881; attended the State normal school at ...
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August H. Andresen
August Herman Andresen (October 11, 1890 – January 14, 1958) was an American lawyer and politician from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. Congress as a Republican for thirty-one years.
Background
August Herman Andresen was born in Newark, Illin ...
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Oscar Keller
Oscar Edward Keller (July 30, 1878 – November 21, 1927) was a representative from Minnesota.
He was born in Helenville, Wisconsin, and attended the public schools and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He moved to Minnesota in 1901 ...
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Walter Newton
Walter Hughes Newton (October 10, 1880 – August 10, 1941) was a United States Representative from Minnesota; born in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; attended the public schools and was graduated from the law department of the Univ ...
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Harold Knutson
Harold Knutson (October 20, 1880 – August 21, 1953) was an American politician and journalist, who represented Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives from 1917 to 1949 as a member of the Republican Party. From 1919 to 19 ...
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Ole J. Kvale (FL)
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William L. Carss (FL)
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Knud Wefald
Knud Magnus Wefald (November 3, 1869 – October 25, 1936), was an American Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 9th congressional district from 1923 ...
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Godfrey G. Goodwin (R)
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
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John E. Rankin
John Elliott Rankin (March 29, 1882 – November 26, 1960) was a Democratic politician from Mississippi who served sixteen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1921 to 1953. He was co-author of the bill for the Tennessee Valley A ...
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Bill G. Lowrey
Bill Green Lowrey (May 25, 1862 – September 2, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Early life
Bill Lowrey was born on May 25, 1862, in Kossuth, Mississippi. He attended public school and the Blue Mountain Academy in Blue Mount ...
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William M. Whittington (D)
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T. Jeff Busby (D)
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Ross A. Collins
Ross Alexander Collins (April 25, 1880 – July 14, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Born in Collinsville, Mississippi, Collins attended the public schools of Meridian, Mississippi, and Mississippi Agricultural and Mechani ...
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T. Webber Wilson (D)
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Percy Quin
Percy Edwards Quin (October 30, 1872 – February 4, 1932) was an American politician from Mississippi. He served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1913 to 1932.
Percy was best known for his stocks and bond ...
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James Collier
James William Collier (September 28, 1872 – September 28, 1933) was a politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi.
Born on the Glenwood Plantation near Vicksburg in 1872, he graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1894 ...
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Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
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Milton A. Romjue
Milton Andrew Romjue (December 5, 1874 – January 23, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Personal life and education
Congressman Romjue was born to Andrew Jackson Romjue (1840–1904) & Susan E. (Roan) Romjue (1843–1931) on Dece ...
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Ralph F. Lozier
Ralph Fulton Lozier (January 28, 1866 – May 28, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born near Hardin, Missouri, Lozier attended the public schools. He graduated from Carrollton High School in 1883 and engaged in teaching for sever ...
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Jacob L. Milligan
Jacob Le Roy Milligan (March 9, 1889 – March 9, 1951) was a United States Representative from Missouri.
Biography
Born in Richmond, Missouri, Milligan attended the public schools and the law department of the University of Missouri 1910-1914.
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Charles L. Faust
Charles Lee Faust (April 24, 1879 – December 17, 1928) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born near Bellefontaine, Ohio, Faust moved with his parents to a farm near Highland, Kansas.
He attended the public schools and Highland Univers ...
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Edgar C. Ellis
Edgar Clarence Ellis (October 2, 1854 – March 15, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Early life
Edgar Clarence Ellis was born on October 2, 1854, in Vermontville, Michigan. Ellis attended country schools. He graduated from Olivet ...
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Clement C. Dickinson
Clement Cabell Dickinson (December 6, 1849 – January 14, 1938), also known as Clement C. Dickinson, was a Democratic Representative representing Missouri from February 1, 1910, to March 3, 1921, from March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1929 and from ...
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Samuel C. Major
Samuel Collier Major (July 2, 1869 – July 28, 1931) was a U.S. representative from Missouri.
Born in Fayette, Missouri, Major attended the public schools and Central College at Fayette. He was graduated from St. James Military Academy, Maco ...
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William L. Nelson (D)
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Clarence Cannon (D)
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Cleveland A. Newton
Cleveland Alexander Newton (September 3, 1873 – September 17, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri's 10th congressional district.
Born in Wright County, Missouri, Newton attended the common schools and Drury College at Springfield, M ...
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Harry B. Hawes
Harry Bartow Hawes (November 15, 1869 – July 31, 1947) was an American lawyer, conservationist, and politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House and Senate from Missouri. He is best known for the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act, ...
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John J. Cochran
John Joseph Cochran (August 11, 1880 – March 6, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Cochran was born in Webster Groves, Missouri; his father and maternal grandparents were Irish immigrants. He attended the public schools in Webst ...
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Leonidas C. Dyer
Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer (June 11, 1871 – December 15, 1957) was an American politician, reformer, civil rights activist, and military officer. A Republican, he served eleven terms in the U.S. Congress as a U.S. Representative from Missouri ...
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Charles E. Kiefner (R)
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Ralph E. Bailey (R)
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Joe J. Manlove (R)
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Thomas L. Rubey (D)
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
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John M. Evans
John Morgan Evans (January 7, 1863 – March 12, 1946) was an American Democratic politician.
Biography
He was born in Sedalia, Missouri. Evans went to the United States Military Academy and then graduated from University of Missouri. He studi ...
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Scott Leavitt
Scott Leavitt (June 16, 1879 – October 19, 1966) was a U.S. Representative from Montana. He served as chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs.
Early life
Scott Leavitt was born in Elk Rapids, Michigan in 1879 to Roswell Leavitt, ...
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Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
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John H. Morehead (D)
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Willis G. Sears
Willis Gratz Sears (August 16, 1860 – June 1, 1949) was an American Republican Party politician.
Born in Willoughby, Ohio on August 16, 1860, Sears moved to Nebraska in 1879. He studied law at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kansas and w ...
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Edgar Howard
Edgar Howard (September 16, 1858 – July 19, 1951) was a Nebraska editor and Democratic politician. He was the 15th lieutenant governor of Nebraska and served six terms in the United States House of Representatives.
Early life and education ...
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Melvin O. McLaughlin
Melvin Orlando McLaughlin (August 8, 1876 – June 18, 1928) was an American Republican Party politician.
Biography
Born in Osceola, Iowa on August 8, 1876, he moved to Nebraska in 1884. He graduated from College View High School, and graduated ...
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Ashton C. Shallenberger
Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger (December 23, 1862 – February 22, 1938) was an American Democratic politician and the 15th Governor of Nebraska from 1909 to 1911.
Early life and education
Shallenberger was born in Toulon, Illinois, on December ...
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Robert G. Simmons
Robert Glenmore Simmons (December 25, 1891 – December 27, 1969) was a Nebraska Republican politician.
Simmons was born on December 25, 1891, near Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He attended Hastings College from 1909 to 1911 and the University of Nebr ...
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Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
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Samuel S. Arentz
Samuel Shaw (Ulysses) Arentz (January 8, 1879 – June 17, 1934) was a United States representative from Nevada. A Republican, he served 10 years in Congress.
Biography
Arentz was born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 8, 1879. He graduated ...
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
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Fletcher Hale
Fletcher Hale (January 22, 1883 – October 22, 1931) was an American politician and a United States representative from New Hampshire.
Early life
Born in Portland, Maine, on January 22, 1883, Hale was the son of Frederick Fletcher Hale and A ...
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Edward H. Wason (R)
New Jersey
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Francis F. Patterson Jr.
Francis Ford Patterson Jr. (July 30, 1867 – November 30, 1935) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1920 to 1927.
Life and car ...
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Isaac Bacharach (R)
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Stewart H. Appleby (R), from November 3, 1925
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Charles A. Eaton
Charles Aubrey Eaton (March 29, 1868January 23, 1953) was a Canadian-born American clergyman and politician who led congregations at Natick, Massachusetts, 1893–1895; Bloor Street, Toronto, 1895–1901; Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1901– ...
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Ernest R. Ackerman
Ernest Robinson Ackerman (17 June 1863 – 18 October 1931) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1919 to 1931.
Early years
Ackerma ...
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Randolph Perkins
Randolph Perkins (November 30, 1871 – May 25, 1936) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 to 1936.
Early life and care ...
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George N. Seger
George Nicholas Seger (January 4, 1866 – August 26, 1940) was an American politician. Seger, a Republican, represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives for eighteen years, from 1923 until his death on August 26, ...
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Herbert W. Taylor
Herbert Worthington Taylor (February 19, 1869, Belleville, New Jersey – October 15, 1931, Newark, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Re ...
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Franklin W. Fort (R)
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Frederick R. Lehlbach
Frederick Reimold Lehlbach (January 31, 1876 – August 4, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican, Lehlbach served as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 1915 to 1933 and as the repres ...
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Oscar L. Auf der Heide
Oscar Louis Auf der Heide (December 8, 1874 – March 29, 1945) was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives for five terms from 1925 to 1935.
Early life and ...
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Mary T. Norton
Mary Teresa Norton (née Hopkins; March 7, 1875 – August 2, 1959) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented Jersey City and Bayonne in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951.
She was the first woman ...
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John Morrow (D)
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Robert L. Bacon
Robert Low Bacon (July 23, 1884 – September 12, 1938) was an American politician, a banker and military officer. He served as a congressman from New York from 1923 until his death in 1938. He is known as one of the authors of the Davis–Bacon ...
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John J. Kindred
John Joseph Kindred (July 15, 1864 – October 23, 1937) was an American physician and politician. Kindred served five terms as U.S. Representative from New York from 1911 to 1913, and from 1921 to 1929, before returning to the practice of medi ...
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George W. Lindsay
George Washington Lindsay (March 28, 1865 – March 15, 1938) was an American businessman and politician who served six terms as a United States representative from New York from 1923 to 1935. He was the son of George Henry Lindsay, who was als ...
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Thomas H. Cullen
Thomas Henry Cullen (March 29, 1868 – March 1, 1944) was an American businessman and politician from New York who served thirteen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1919 to 1944.
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, Cullen attended the ...
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Loring M. Black Jr.
Loring Milton Black Jr. (May 17, 1886 – May 21, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a United States representative from New York from 1923 to 1935.
Biography
Loring was born in New York City on May 17, 1886, a ...
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Andrew L. Somers
Andrew Lawrence Somers (March 21, 1895 – April 6, 1949) was an American businessman, World War I veteran, and Democratic politician who served 13 terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1925 until his death in 1949.
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John Quayle (D)
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William E. Cleary (D)
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David J. O'Connell (D)
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Emanuel Celler
Emanuel Celler (May 6, 1888 – January 15, 1981) was an American politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for almost 50 years, from March 1923 to January 1973. He served as the dean of the United States H ...
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Anning S. Prall
Anning Smith Prall (September 17, 1870 – July 23, 1937) was a 6-term U.S. Representative from New York from 1923 to 1935.
He was born in Port Richmond, Staten Island and the first chief commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC ...
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Samuel Dickstein (D)
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Christopher D. Sullivan
Christopher Daniel Sullivan (July 14, 1870 – August 3, 1942) was an American politician from New York who served twelve terms as a United States Congressman from 1917 to 1941.
Life
Born in New York City, he attended the public schools, St. Jame ...
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Nathan D. Perlman (R)
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John J. Boylan (D)
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John J. O'Connor (D)
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Ogden L. Mills
Ogden Livingston Mills (August 23, 1884October 11, 1937) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Treasury in President Herbert Hoover's cabinet, during which time Mills pushed for tax increa ...
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John F. Carew
John Francis Carew (April 16, 1873 – April 10, 1951) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1913 to 1929. He was a nephew of Thomas Francis Magner.
Biography
Born in Williams ...
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Sol Bloom (D)
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Fiorello H. LaGuardia (R)
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Royal H. Weller (D)
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Anthony J. Griffin
Anthony Jerome Griffin (April 1, 1866 – January 13, 1935) was an American lawyer, war veteran, and politician from New York. He served ten terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1918 to 1935.
Life
He attended City College, Cooper Un ...
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Frank Oliver Frank Oliver may refer to:
* Frank Oliver (American football) (born 1952), American football player
* Frank Oliver (footballer) (1882–?), English footballer
*Frank Oliver (politician) (1853–1933), Canadian politician
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Benjamin L. Fairchild
Benjamin Lewis Fairchild (January 5, 1863 – October 25, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Sweden (near Rochester), Monroe County, New York, Fairchild attended the public schools of Washington, D.C., and a business college ...
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J. Mayhew Wainwright (R)
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Hamilton Fish Jr. (R)
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Harcourt J. Pratt
Harcourt Joseph Pratt (October 23, 1866 – May 21, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from New York and notable politician from Ulster County.
Early life
Born in Highland, New York, the son of George Washington Pratt (1840-1931) and Mary Ade ...
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Parker Corning
Parker Corning (January 22, 1874 – May 24, 1943) was an American businessman and politician from Albany, New York. He is most notable for his service as a United States representative from New York from 1923 to 1937.
A member of the Alba ...
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James S. Parker
James Southworth Parker (June 3, 1867 – December 19, 1933) was a United States Representative from New York.
Life
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell Univer ...
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Frank Crowther (R)
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Bertrand Snell (R)
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Thaddeus C. Sweet
Thaddeus Campbell Sweet (November 16, 1872 – May 1, 1928) was an American manufacturer and politician from New York. He represented New York's 32nd congressional district from 1923 to 1928.
Biography
He was born on November 16, 1872 in Phoenix ...
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Frederick M. Davenport
Frederick Morgan Davenport (August 27, 1866 – December 26, 1956) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Life and career
Davenport was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Anna L. (Green) and ...
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Harold S. Tolley
Harold Sumner Tolley (January 16, 1894 – May 20, 1956) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Biography
Tolley was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1916. ...
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Walter W. Magee
Walter Warren Magee (May 23, 1861 – May 25, 1927) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a member of the United States House of Representatives; elected as a Republican in 1914, he served ...
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John Taber
John Taber (May 5, 1880 – November 22, 1965) was an American attorney and New York politician who represented parts of the Finger Lakes and Central New York regions in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1963.
Biography
Ta ...
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Gale H. Stalker (R)
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Meyer Jacobstein
Meyer Jacobstein (January 25, 1880 – April 18, 1963) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Early life
According to family archives, Meyer was born on Henry Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to Po ...
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Archie D. Sanders
Archie Dovell Sanders (June 17, 1857 – July 15, 1941) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Life
Sanders was born in Stafford, New York in 1857. He was a member of the New York State Assembly ...
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S. Wallace Dempsey (R)
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Clarence MacGregor
Clarence MacGregor (September 16, 1872 – February 18, 1952) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Life
MacGregor was born in Newark, New York. He graduated from Hartwick Seminary in 1893. He wa ...
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James M. Mead (D)
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Daniel A. Reed (R)
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and ...
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Lindsay C. Warren (D)
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John H. Kerr (D)
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Charles L. Abernethy (D)
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Edward W. Pou
Edward William Pou (; September 9, 1863 – April 1, 1934), was an American politician, serving in the United States Congress as a representative from 1901 until his death in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 1934. From March 1933 to April 1934, he w ...
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Charles M. Stedman (D)
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Homer L. Lyon
Homer Le Grand Lyon (March 1, 1879 – May 31, 1956) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Born in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Lyon attended the public schools, the Davis Military School, Wins ...
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William C. Hammer
William Cicero Hammer (March 24, 1865 – September 26, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Born near Asheboro, North Carolina, Hammer attended private and common schools.
He studied at Yadkin Institute and Western Maryland C ...
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Robert L. Doughton (D)
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Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)
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Zebulon Weaver
Zebulon Weaver (May 12, 1872 – October 29, 1948) was an American lawyer and politician who served 14 terms as a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1917 and 1929 and again between 1931 and 1947.
Early years and education
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North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, So ...
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Olger B. Burtness (R)
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Thomas Hall (R)
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James H. Sinclair
James Herbert Sinclair (October 9, 1871 – September 5, 1943) was a U.S. Republican politician.
He was born near St. Marys, Ontario, Canada and moved to North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after th ...
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Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
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Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth III (November 5, 1869 – April 9, 1931) was an American politician who became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Republican. A lawyer by training, he was elected to the Ohio Senate, where he ini ...
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Ambrose E.B. Stephens (R), until February 12, 1927
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Roy G. Fitzgerald
Roy Gerald Fitzgerald (August 25, 1875 – November 16, 1962) was an attorney, soldier, preservationist, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio.
Birth and early life
He was born in Watertown, New York and move ...
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William T. Fitzgerald
William Thomas Fitzgerald (October 13, 1858 – January 12, 1939) was an American educator, physician, and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1925 to 1929.
Biography
Born in Greenville, Ohio, Fitzgerald a ...
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Charles J. Thompson
Charles James Thompson (January 24, 1862 – March 27, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1919 to 1931.
Biography
Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Thompson attended the public schools and the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Learn ...
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Charles C. Kearns (R)
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Charles Brand (R)
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T. Brooks Fletcher (D)
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William W. Chalmers
William Wallace Chalmers (November 1, 1861 – October 1, 1944) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada, Chalmers moved with his parents to Kent County, near Grand Rapids, M ...
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Thomas A. Jenkins (R)
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Mell G. Underwood (D)
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John C. Speaks (R)
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James T. Begg (R)
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Martin L. Davey
Martin Luther Davey (July 25, 1884March 31, 1946) was an American Democratic politician from Ohio. He was the 53rd governor of Ohio.
Childhood
Davey was born in Kent, Ohio in 1884. His father was John Davey, better known as the tree doctor a ...
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C. Ellis Moore (R)
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John McSweeney (D)
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William M. Morgan (R)
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B. Frank Murphy
Benjamin Franklin Murphy (December 24, 1867 – March 6, 1938) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1919 to 1933.
Biography
Born in Steubenville, Ohio to Charles F. Murphy and Mary E. (née Beasley) Murphy, he attended the public school ...
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John G. Cooper (R)
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Charles A. Mooney
Charles Anthony Mooney (January 5, 1879 – May 29, 1931) was a five-term U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Biography
Born in St. Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio, Mooney attended public and Jesuit schools. He was graduated from St. Marys High Sch ...
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Robert Crosser
Robert Crosser (June 7, 1874 – June 3, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician who served 19 terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio. He remains the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of ...
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Theodore E. Burton (R)
Oklahoma
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Samuel J. Montgomery (R)
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William W. Hastings (D)
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Charles D. Carter
Charles David Carter (August 16, 1868 in Chickasaw – April 9, 1929) was a Native American politician elected as U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, serving from 1907 to 1927. During this period, he also served as Mining Trustee for Indian Terri ...
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Tom D. McKeown
Thomas Deitz McKeown (June 4, 1878 – October 22, 1951) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Biography
Born in Blackstock, South Carolina, McKeown was the son of Theodore B. and Nannie B. Robinson McKeown. He attended the common schools, ...
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Fletcher B. Swank
Fletcher B. Swank (April 24, 1875 – March 16, 1950) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Biography
Born near Bloomfield, Iowa, Swank was the son of Wallace and Melinda Wells Swank. He moved with his parents to ...
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Elmer Thomas
John William Elmer Thomas (September 8, 1876 – September 19, 1965) was a native of Indiana who moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1901, where he practiced law in Lawton. After statehood, he was elected to the first state senate, representing the L ...
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James V. McClintic (D)
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Milton C. Garber
Milton Cline Garber (November 30, 1867 – September 12, 1948) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma. He also served as an associate justice of the Oklahoma Territory before Oklahoma became a state. In 1942, he was inducted into the Oklahom ...
(R)
Oregon
Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...
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Willis C. Hawley
Willis Chatman Hawley (May 5, 1864 – July 24, 1941) was an American politician and educator in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he would serve as president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he earned his undergraduate ...
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Nicholas J. Sinnott (R)
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Maurice E. Crumpacker (R)
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
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William S. Vare (R)
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George S. Graham (R)
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Harry C. Ransley (R)
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Benjamin M. Golder (R)
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James J. Connolly (R)
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George A. Welsh
George Austin Welsh (August 9, 1878 – October 22, 1970) was a United States representative from Pennsylvania and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Education and career ...
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George P. Darrow
George Potter Darrow (February 4, 1859 – June 7, 1943) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
George Darrow was born in Waterford, Connecticut. He graduated from Alfred University in Alfred, New ...
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Thomas S. Butler (R)
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Henry W. Watson (R)
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William W. Griest (R)
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Laurence H. Watres
Laurence Hawley Watres (July 18, 1882 – February 6, 1964) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life and education
Laurence H. Watres was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Louis Arthur Watres ...
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Edmund N. Carpenter (R)
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George F. Brumm (R)
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Charles J. Esterly
Charles Joseph Esterly (February 8, 1888 – September 3, 1940) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Charles J. Esterly was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was employed with an electric co ...
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Louis T. McFadden
Louis Thomas McFadden (July 25, 1876 – October 1, 1936) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, serving from 1915 to 1935. A banker by trade, he was the chief sponsor of the 1927 McFadden Act ...
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Edgar R. Kiess
Edgar Raymond Kiess (August 26, 1875 – July 20, 1930) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Kiess was born in Warrensville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Lycoming County Normal School i ...
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Frederick W. Magrady (R)
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Edward M. Beers
Edward McMath Beers (May 27, 1877 – April 21, 1932) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Edward M. Beers was born in Nossville, Tell Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1877. In 1895, ...
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Joshua W. Swartz (R)
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Anderson H. Walters (R)
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J. Banks Kurtz (R)
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Franklin Menges
Franklin Menges (October 26, 1858 – May 12, 1956) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Franklin Menges was born at Menges Mills, York County, Pennsylvania. He att ...
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William I. Swoope (R)
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Samuel A. Kendall (R)
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Henry W. Temple (R)
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Thomas W. Phillips Jr. (R)
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Nathan L. Strong (R)
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Harris J. Bixler (R)
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Milton W. Shreve
Milton William Shreve (May 3, 1858 – December 23, 1939) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Milton W. Shreve was born in Chapmanville, Pennsylvania. He attended the Edinboro State Normal ...
(R)
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William R. Coyle (R)
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Adam M. Wyant (R)
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Stephen G. Porter (R)
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M. Clyde Kelly (R)
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John M. Morin
John Mary Morin (April 18, 1868 – March 3, 1942) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania.
Biography
Morin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but moved with his parents to Pittsburgh. He began ...
(R)
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James M. Magee (R)
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Guy E. Campbell (R)
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but it ...
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Clark Burdick (R)
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Richard S. Aldrich
Richard Steere Aldrich (February 29, 1884December 25, 1941) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and served in the Rhode Island State Senate and the Rhode Island House of Representatives. ...
(R)
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Jeremiah E. O'Connell (D)
South Carolina
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, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = ...
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Thomas S. McMillan (D)
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Butler B. Hare
Butler Black Hare (November 25, 1875 – December 30, 1967) was an American politician who represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Born to James and Elizabeth Hare (née Black), he was one of nine sons born t ...
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Frederick H. Dominick (D)
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John J. McSwain (D)
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William F. Stevenson (D)
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Allard H. Gasque
Allard Henry Gasque (March 8, 1873 – June 17, 1938) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1923 until his death in June 1938. Following his death, he was succeeded in office by his wife Elizabeth Hawley Gasque.
Biography
Early l ...
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Hampton P. Fulmer
Hampton Pitts Fulmer (June 23, 1875 – October 19, 1944) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 – October 19, 1944. After his death, his wi ...
(D)
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large porti ...
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Charles A. Christopherson
Charles Andrew Christopherson (July 23, 1871 – November 2, 1951) was an American lawyer and politician in South Dakota. He was elected to the state legislature in 1912. In 1918 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, whe ...
(R)
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Royal C. Johnson (R)
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William Williamson (R)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
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B. Carroll Reece
Brazilla Carroll Reece (December 22, 1889 – March 19, 1961) was an American Republican Party politician from Tennessee. He represented eastern Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives for all but six years from 1921 to 1961 ...
(R)
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J. Will Taylor (R)
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Sam D. McReynolds (D)
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Cordell Hull (D)
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Ewin L. Davis
Ewin Lamar Davis (February 5, 1876October 23, 1949) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 5th congressional district of Tennessee.
Biography
Davis was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, s ...
(D)
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Joseph W. Byrns Sr.
Joseph Wellington "Jo" Byrns Sr. (July 20, 1869 – June 4, 1936) was a United States, U.S. politician. He served as a 14-term United States Democratic Party, Democratic United States House of Representatives, congressman from Tennessee, and as ...
(D)
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Edward E. Eslick (D)
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Gordon Browning
Gordon Weaver Browning (November 22, 1889May 23, 1976) was an American politician who served as the 38th governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1949 to 1953. He also served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 19 ...
(D)
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Finis J. Garrett
Finis James Garrett (August 26, 1875 – May 25, 1956) was a United States representative from Tennessee and a Chief Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
Education and career
Born on August 26, 1875, near Ore Springs, ...
(D)
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Hubert Fisher (D)
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
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Eugene Black (D)
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John C. Box (D)
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Morgan G. Sanders
Morgan Gurley Sanders (July 14, 1878 – January 7, 1956) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Texas.
Born near Ben Wheeler, Texas, Sanders attended the public schools. He graduated from Alamo Institute and ta ...
(D)
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Sam Rayburn (D)
: .
Hatton W. Sumners
Hatton William Sumners (May 30, 1875 – April 19, 1962) was a Democratic Congressman from the Dallas, Texas area, serving from 1913 to 1947. He rose to become Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee.
Early life and career
Hatto ...
(D)
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Luther Alexander Johnson
Luther Alexander Johnson (October 29, 1875 – June 6, 1965) was a United States Congressman from the U.S. state of Texas.
Early years
Luther was born in Corsicana, Texas, where he attended the public schools. He received his L.L.B. in 1896 fr ...
(D)
: .
Clay Stone Briggs
Clay Stone Briggs (January 8, 1876 – April 29, 1933) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1919 through his death in 1933.
Early life
Briggs was born in Galveston, Texas, on January 8, 1876. While a child ...
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Daniel E. Garrett (D)
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Joseph J. Mansfield (D)
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James P. Buchanan (D)
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Tom Connally (D)
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Fritz G. Lanham (D)
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Guinn Williams
Guinn Terrell Williams (April 22, 1871 – January 9, 1948) was an American banker and politician. A Democrat, he served in the Texas State Senate, and is most notable for his service in the U.S. representative from Texas. His son was the actor ...
(D)
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Harry M. Wurzbach (R)
: .
John N. Garner
John Nance Garner III (November 22, 1868 – November 7, 1967), known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was an American History of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician and lawyer from History of Texas, Texas who ...
(D)
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Claude B. Hudspeth (D)
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Thomas L. Blanton (D)
: .
J. Marvin Jones (D)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
: .
Don B. Colton
Don Byron Colton (September 15, 1876 – August 1, 1952) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Utah.
Early life
Born near Mona, Utah, Mona, Juab County, Utah, Juab County, Utah Territory, Colton moved with his p ...
(R)
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Elmer O. Leatherwood
Elmer O. Leatherwood (September 4, 1872 – December 24, 1929) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Utah.
Born on a farm near Waverly, Ohio, Leatherwood attended the public schools.
He moved to Emporia, Kansas ...
(R)
Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
: . Elbert S. Brigham (R)
: . Ernest Willard Gibson (R)
List of United States representatives from Virginia, Virginia
: . S. Otis Bland (D)
: . Joseph T. Deal (D)
: . Andrew Jackson Montague, Andrew J. Montague (D)
: . Patrick H. Drewry (D)
: . Joseph Whitehead (representative), Joseph Whitehead (D)
: . Clifton A. Woodrum (D)
: . Thomas W. Harrison (D)
: . R. Walton Moore (D)
: . George C. Peery (D)
: . Henry St. George Tucker III (D)
List of United States representatives from Washington, Washington
: . John Franklin Miller (Washington representative), John F. Miller (R)
: . Lindley H. Hadley (R)
: . Albert Johnson (congressman), Albert Johnson (R)
: . John W. Summers (R)
: . Samuel B. Hill (Washington politician), Samuel B. Hill (D)
List of United States representatives from West Virginia, West Virginia
: . Carl G. Bachmann (R)
: . Frank L. Bowman (R)
: . John M. Wolverton (R)
: . Harry C. Woodyard (R)
: . James F. Strother (West Virginia politician), James F. Strother (R)
: . J. Alfred Taylor (D)
List of United States representatives from Wisconsin, Wisconsin
: . Henry Allen Cooper, Henry A. Cooper (R)
: . Edward Voigt (R)
: . John M. Nelson (R)
: . John C. Schafer (R)
: . Victor L. Berger (S)
: . Florian Lampert (R)
: . Joseph D. Beck (R)
: . Edward E. Browne (R)
: . George J. Schneider (R)
: . James A. Frear (R)
: . Hubert H. Peavey (R)
List of United States representatives from Wyoming, Wyoming
: . Charles E. Winter (R)
Non-voting members
: . Daniel Sutherland (R)
: . William Paul Jarrett, William P. Jarrett (D)
: . Isauro Gabaldon (Nacionalista Party, Nac.)
: . Pedro Guevara (Nacionalista Party, Nac.)
: . Félix Córdova Dávila (UPR)
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
* Replacements: 10
** Democratic Party (United States), Democratic: 2 net gain
** Republican Party (United States), Republican: 3 net loss
* Deaths: 7
* Resignations: 0
* Contested election: 1
* Interim appointments: 2
*Total seats with changes: 9
House of Representatives
* Replacements: 9
** Democratic Party (United States), Democratic: 1 seat net loss
** Republican Party (United States), Republican: 1 seat net gain
* Deaths: 9
* Resignations: 2
*Total seats with changes: 12
Committees
Senate
* United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: George W. Norris; Ranking Member:
Ellison D. Smith)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Alien Property Custodian's Office, Alien Property Custodian's Office (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman:
Francis E. Warren; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman)
* United States Senate Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman:
Henry W. Keyes; Ranking Member:
Kenneth McKellar)
* United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman:
George P. McLean
George Payne McLean (October 7, 1857 – June 6, 1932) was the 59th Governor of Connecticut, and a United States senator from Connecticut.
Biography
McLean was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, one of five children of Dudley B. McLean and Mary ...
; Ranking Member:
Duncan U. Fletcher
Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (January 6, 1859June 17, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history. He also served two terms as Mayor of Jacksonville a ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Civil Service, Civil Service (Chairman: James Couzens then
Porter H. Dale
Porter Hinman Dale (March 1, 1867October 6, 1933) was a member of both the United States House of Representatives and later the United States Senate from Vermont.
Early life and career
The son of Lieutenant Governor George N. Dale and Helen (Hi ...
; Ranking Member:
Kenneth McKellar)
* United States Senate Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman:
Rice W. Means
Rice William Means (November 16, 1877January 30, 1949) was an American soldier and lawyer who became a Ku Klux Klan leader and a Republican United States Senator from Colorado.
Early life, education, and military service
Born in St. Joseph, ...
; Ranking Member:
Park Trammell)
* United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Commerce (Chairman: Wesley L. Jones; Ranking Member:
Duncan U. Fletcher
Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (January 6, 1859June 17, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history. He also served two terms as Mayor of Jacksonville a ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman:
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radi ...
; Ranking Member:
William H. King)
* United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor, Education and Labor (Chairman:
Lawrence C. Phipps
Lawrence Cowle Phipps (August 30, 1862 – March 1, 1958) was a United States Senator representing Colorado from 1919 until 1931.
Biography
Lawrence Cowle Phipps was born on August 30, 1862 in Amity, Pennsylvania, the son of William Henry Phi ...
; Ranking Member:
Andrieus A. Jones
Andrieus Aristieus Jones (May 16, 1862December 20, 1927) was an American politician from New Mexico who represented the state in the United States Senate from 1917 until his death in 1927.
Early life and education
Jones was born in Obion County, ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman:
Frank L. Greene
Frank Lester Greene (February 10, 1870December 17, 1930) was a Vermont newspaper editor and militia officer. He is most notable for his service as a United States Representative and Senator.
A native of St. Albans, Vermont, he was educated in ...
; Ranking Member: Coleman L. Blease)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments, Expenditures in Executive Departments (Chairman:
David A. Reed
David Aiken Reed (December 21, 1880February 10, 1953) was an American lawyer and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1922 to 1935. He was a co-author of the restr ...
; Ranking Member: Oscar W. Underwood)
* United States Senate Committee on Finance, Finance (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member: Furnifold M. Simmons)
* United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Relations (Chairman: William E. Borah; Ranking Member: Claude Swanson)
* United States Senate Committee on Immigration, Immigration (Chairman: Hiram W. Johnson; Ranking Member:
William H. King)
* United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman:
John W. Harreld
John William Harreld (January 24, 1872December 26, 1950) was a United States representative and Senator from Oklahoma. Harreld was the first Republican senator elected in Oklahoma and represented a shift in Oklahoma politics.Gaddie, Ronald Keit ...
; Ranking Member:
Henry F. Ashurst)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Internal Revenue Bureau, Internal Revenue Bureau (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals, Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Walter Evans Edge; Ranking Member:
Thomas J. Walsh
Thomas James Walsh (June 12, 1859March 2, 1933) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Helena, Montana who represented Montana in the US Senate from 1913 to 1933. He was initially elected by the state legislature, and from 1 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Interstate Commerce (Chairman: James Eli Watson; Ranking Member:
Ellison D. Smith)
* United States Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman:
Charles L. McNary; Ranking Member:
Morris Sheppard
John Morris Sheppard (May 28, 1875April 9, 1941) was a Democratic United States Congressman and United States Senator from Texas. He authored the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) and introduced it in the Senate, and is referred to as "the fa ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman:
Albert B. Cummins; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman)
* United States Senate Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman:
Simeon D. Fess
Simeon Davison Fess (December 11, 1861December 23, 1936) was a Republican politician and educator from Ohio, United States. He served in the United States House of Representatives (1915 to 1923) and U.S. Senate (1923 to 1935).
Early life
Born o ...
; Ranking Member:
Kenneth McKellar)
* United States Senate Committee on Manufactures, Manufactures (Chairman:
William B. McKinley
William Brown McKinley (September 5, 1856December 7, 1926) was a U.S. Representative (1905–1913, 1915–1921) and United States Senator (1921–1926) from the State of Illinois. A member of the Republican Party, he was born near Petersburg, Il ...
; Ranking Member:
Ellison D. Smith)
* United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman: James W. Wadsworth Jr.; Ranking Member:
Duncan U. Fletcher
Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (January 6, 1859June 17, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history. He also served two terms as Mayor of Jacksonville a ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman: Tasker L. Oddie; Ranking Member:
Thomas J. Walsh
Thomas James Walsh (June 12, 1859March 2, 1933) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Helena, Montana who represented Montana in the US Senate from 1913 to 1933. He was initially elected by the state legislature, and from 1 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman: Frederick Hale (U.S. senator), Frederick Hale; Ranking Member:
Claude A. Swanson)
* United States Senate Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman:
William M. Butler
William Morgan Butler (January 29, 1861March 29, 1937) was a lawyer and legislator for the State of Massachusetts, and a United States Senator.
Biography
Butler was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he attended the public school and stud ...
; Ranking Member:
Ellison D. Smith)
* United States Senate Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman:
Peter Norbeck
Peter Norbeck (August 27, 1870December 20, 1936) was an American politician from South Dakota. After serving two terms as the ninth Governor of South Dakota, Norbeck was elected to three consecutive terms as a United States Senator. Norbeck was ...
; Ranking Member:
Peter G. Gerry
Peter Goelet Gerry (September 18, 1879 – October 31, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and later, as a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island. He is the only U.S. Senator in American h ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman:
George H. Moses
George Higgins Moses (February 9, 1869December 20, 1944) was a U.S. diplomat and political figure. He served as a United States senator from New Hampshire and was chosen as the Senate's President pro tempore.
Biography
George H. Moses was born ...
; Ranking Member:
Kenneth McKellar)
* United States Senate Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman: George W. Pepper; Ranking Member:
Duncan U. Fletcher
Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (January 6, 1859June 17, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history. He also served two terms as Mayor of Jacksonville a ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Privileges and Elections (Chairman:
Richard P. Ernst; Ranking Member:
William H. King)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman:
Bert M. Fernald; Ranking Member:
James A. Reed)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands and Surveys (Chairman: Robert Nelson Stanfield; Ranking Member:
Key Pittman)
* United States Senate Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman:
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Sena ...
; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Senatorial Elections, Senatorial Elections (Select)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Tariff Commission, Tariff Commission (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on Territories, Territories and Insular Possessions (Chairman:
Frank B. Willis
Frank Bartlett Willis (December 28, 1871March 30, 1928) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Republican from Ohio. He served as the 47th governor of Ohio from 1915 to 1917, then served as a U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1921 until his ...
; Ranking Member:
Key Pittman)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the War Finance Corporation Loans, War Finance Corporation Loans (Select)
* Committee of the whole, Whole
House of Representatives
* United States House Committee on Accounts, Accounts (Chairman:
Clarence MacGregor
Clarence MacGregor (September 16, 1872 – February 18, 1952) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Life
MacGregor was born in Newark, New York. He graduated from Hartwick Seminary in 1893. He wa ...
; Ranking Member: Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert)
* United States House Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture (Chairman:
Gilbert N. Haugen
Gilbert Nelson Haugen (April 21, 1859 – July 18, 1933) was a seventeen-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district, then located in northeastern Iowa. For nearly five years, he was the longest-serving member o ...
; Ranking Member:
James B. Aswell
James Benjamin Aswell Sr. (December 23, 1869 – March 16, 1931) was a prominent educator and a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic U.S. representative from Louisiana, who served from 1913 until his death, which occurred twelve days in ...
)
* United States House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman:
Grant M. Hudson
Grant Martin Hudson (July 23, 1868 – October 26, 1955) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Hudson was born in Eaton Township, Lorain County, Ohio. He attended the common schools and graduated from Kalamazoo College, Kalamaz ...
; Ranking Member:
William D. Upshaw
William David Upshaw (October 15, 1866 – November 21, 1952) served eight years in Congress (1919–1927), where he was such a strong proponent of the temperance movement that he became known as the "driest of the drys." In Congress, Upshaw ...
)
* United States House Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman:
Martin B. Madden; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Byrns)
* United States House Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman: Louis T. McFadden; Ranking Member:
Otis Wingo
Otis Theodore Wingo (June 18, 1877 – October 21, 1930) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 1913 to 1930. He was the husband of his successor in office, Effie ...
)
* United States House Committee on the Census, Census (Chairman:
E. Hart Fenn
Edward Hart Fenn (September 12, 1856 – February 23, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Biography
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Fenn attended private schools, Hartford High School, and Yale University. Associated with ...
; Ranking Member:
John E. Rankin
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* United States House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Civil Service (Chairman:
Frederick R. Lehlbach
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; Ranking Member:
Lamar Jeffers)
* United States House Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman:
Charles L. Underhill; Ranking Member:
John C. Box)
* United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman:
Randolph Perkins
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Early life and care ...
; Ranking Member:
Bill G. Lowrey
Bill Green Lowrey (May 25, 1862 – September 2, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Early life
Bill Lowrey was born on May 25, 1862, in Kossuth, Mississippi. He attended public school and the Blue Mountain Academy in Blue Mount ...
)
* United States House Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of Executive Papers (Chairman: Edward H. Wason; Ranking Member:
Arthur B. Rouse
Arthur Blythe Rouse (June 20, 1874 – January 25, 1956) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Early life
Born in Burlington, Kentucky, Rouse attended the public schools, graduating from Boone County High School. He was graduated from Hanov ...
)
* United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman: Frederick N. Zihlman; Ranking Member:
Christopher D. Sullivan
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Life
Born in New York City, he attended the public schools, St. Jame ...
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* United States House Committee on Education, Education (Chairman:
Daniel A. Reed; Ranking Member:
Bill G. Lowrey
Bill Green Lowrey (May 25, 1862 – September 2, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Early life
Bill Lowrey was born on May 25, 1862, in Kossuth, Mississippi. He attended public school and the Blue Mountain Academy in Blue Mount ...
)
* United States House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress, Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman:
Hays B. White
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Born near Fairfield, Iowa, White attended the rural schools of his native county. He engaged in agricultural pursuits. He moved to Jewell Count ...
; Ranking Member:
Lamar Jeffers)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#1 (Chairman:
Don B. Colton
Don Byron Colton (September 15, 1876 – August 1, 1952) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Utah.
Early life
Born near Mona, Utah, Mona, Juab County, Utah, Juab County, Utah Territory, Colton moved with his p ...
; Ranking Member: Claude Benton Hudspeth, C.B. Hudspeth)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#2 (Chairman:
Bird J. Vincent; Ranking Member:
Gordon Browning
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* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#3 (Chairman:
Charles L. Gifford
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; Ranking Member: Guinn Williams)
* United States House Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Guy E. Campbell; Ranking Member:
Thomas L. Blanton)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Agriculture Department, Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman: Edward J. King; Ranking Member: Frank Gardner (politician), Frank Gardner)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Commerce Department, Expenditures in the Commerce Department (Chairman: Henry R. Rathbone; Ranking Member:
Miles C. Allgood
Miles Clayton Allgood (February 22, 1878 – March 4, 1977) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Biography
Born in Chepultepec (now Allgood), Blount County, Alabama, Allgood was the son of William Barnett and Mary ...
)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department, Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: William Williamson (American politician), William Williamson; Ranking Member:
Sol Bloom)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Justice Department, Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman:
Willis G. Sears
Willis Gratz Sears (August 16, 1860 – June 1, 1949) was an American Republican Party politician.
Born in Willoughby, Ohio on August 16, 1860, Sears moved to Nebraska in 1879. He studied law at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kansas and w ...
; Ranking Member:
Frank Oliver Frank Oliver may refer to:
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* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Labor Department, Expenditures in the Labor Department (Chairman:
Carroll L. Beedy
Carroll Lynwood Beedy (August 3, 1880 – August 30, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Maine from 1921 to 1935.
He was born in Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, on August 3, 1880. He attended the public schools of Lewiston, Androscoggin ...
; Ranking Member:
Thomas L. Blanton)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman:
George F. Brumm; Ranking Member: Charles L. Abernethy)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Philip D. Swing; Ranking Member: Guinn Williams)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the State Department, Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman:
J. Will Taylor; Ranking Member: George C. Peery)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Ernest Willard Gibson, Ernest W. Gibson; Ranking Member:
Heartsill Ragon)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman:
Thaddeus C. Sweet
Thaddeus Campbell Sweet (November 16, 1872 – May 1, 1928) was an American manufacturer and politician from New York. He represented New York's 32nd congressional district from 1923 to 1928.
Biography
He was born on November 16, 1872 in Phoenix ...
; Ranking Member:
Arthur H. Greenwood
Arthur Herbert Greenwood (January 31, 1880 – April 26, 1963) was a United States Representative ( D) for Indiana for 2nd District from 1923–1933 and for the 7th District 1933–1939. Greenwood was defeated in 1938.
The Baptist lawyer, farmer ...
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* United States House Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings, Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman:
Elmer O. Leatherwood
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Born on a farm near Waverly, Ohio, Leatherwood attended the public schools.
He moved to Emporia, Kansas ...
; Ranking Member:
Samuel Dickstein)
* United States House Committee on Flood Control, Flood Control (Chairman:
Frank R. Reid
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; Ranking Member:
Riley J. Wilson
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* United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Stephen G. Porter; Ranking Member: J. Charles Linthicum)
* United States House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Albert Johnson (congressman), Albert Johnson; Ranking Member:
Adolph J. Sabath
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* United States House Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman:
John W. Harreld
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; Ranking Member:
Carl Hayden
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* United States House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, Industrial Arts and Expositions (Chairman: George A. Welsh; Ranking Member:
Fritz G. Lanham)
* United States House Select Committee of Inquiry into Operation of the United States Air Services, Inquiry into Operation of the United States Air Services (Select) (Chairman: N/A)
* United States House Committee on Insular Affairs, Insular Affairs (Chairman:
Scott Leavitt
Scott Leavitt (June 16, 1879 – October 19, 1966) was a U.S. Representative from Montana. He served as chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs.
Early life
Scott Leavitt was born in Elk Rapids, Michigan in 1879 to Roswell Leavitt, ...
; Ranking Member:
Mell G. Underwood)
* United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman:
James S. Parker
James Southworth Parker (June 3, 1867 – December 19, 1933) was a United States Representative from New York.
Life
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell Univer ...
; Ranking Member:
Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...
)
* United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions, Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Charles E. Fuller; Ranking Member:
Mell G. Underwood)
* United States House Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands, Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman:
Addison T. Smith
Addison Taylor Smith (September 5, 1862 – July 5, 1956) was a congressman from Idaho. Smith served as a Republican in the U.S. House for ten terms, from 1913 to 1933.
Born in Cambridge, Ohio, Smith began his political career in 1891 in Washin ...
; Ranking Member:
Carl Hayden
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* United States House Committee on Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman: George S. Graham; Ranking Member:
Hatton W. Sumners
Hatton William Sumners (May 30, 1875 – April 19, 1962) was a Democratic Congressman from the Dallas, Texas area, serving from 1913 to 1947. He rose to become Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee.
Early life and career
Hatto ...
)
* United States House Committee on Labor, Labor (Chairman:
William F. Kopp
William Frederick Kopp (June 20, 1869 – August 24, 1938) was a six-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district.
Born near Dodgeville, Iowa, Kopp attended the common schools. He was graduated from Iowa Wesleyan C ...
; Ranking Member:
William D. Upshaw
William David Upshaw (October 15, 1866 – November 21, 1952) served eight years in Congress (1919–1927), where he was such a strong proponent of the temperance movement that he became known as the "driest of the drys." In Congress, Upshaw ...
)
* United States House Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman:
Robert Luce
Robert Luce (December 2, 1862 – April 7, 1946) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Biography
Born in Auburn, Maine, Luce attended the public schools of Auburn and Lewiston, Maine, and Somerville, Massachusetts. He gra ...
; Ranking Member: Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert)
* United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman:
Frank D. Scott
Frank Douglas Scott (August 25, 1878 – February 12, 1951) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Scott was born of Scottish ancestry in Alpena, Michigan, attended the public schools and graduated from the law department of the Unive ...
; Ranking Member:
Ladislas Lazaro
Ladislas Lazaro (June 5, 1872 – March 30, 1927) was an American politician who served as a Democrat U.S. Representative from from 1913 to 1927.
Biography
Born near Ville Platte, Evangeline (then part of St. Landry) Parish, Louisiana, Lazar ...
)
* United States House Committee on Mileage, Mileage (Chairman:
Carroll L. Beedy
Carroll Lynwood Beedy (August 3, 1880 – August 30, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Maine from 1921 to 1935.
He was born in Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, on August 3, 1880. He attended the public schools of Lewiston, Androscoggin ...
; Ranking Member:
John W. Moore)
* United States House Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman:
John M. Morin
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Biography
Morin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but moved with his parents to Pittsburgh. He began ...
; Ranking Member: Percy E. Quin)
* United States House Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman:
John M. Robsion
John Marshall Robsion (January 2, 1873February 17, 1948), a Republican, represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Robsion was born in Berlin, Kentucky. He attended National Northern ...
; Ranking Member: Daniel Sutherland)
* United States House Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman:
Thomas S. Butler; Ranking Member:
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson (November 18, 1883 – June 1, 1981) was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th century expansion of the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Democratic ...
)
* United States House Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman:
Albert H. Vestal
Albert Henry Vestal (January 18, 1875 – April 1, 1932) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a Republican United States Representative from Indiana from 1917 to 1932.
Biography
Born on a farm near Frankton, in Madiso ...
; Ranking Member:
Fritz G. Lanham)
* United States House Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman:
Harold Knutson
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; Ranking Member:
William D. Upshaw
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)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: William W. Griest; Ranking Member:
Thomas M. Bell)
* United States House Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman:
Edward M. Beers
Edward McMath Beers (May 27, 1877 – April 21, 1932) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Edward M. Beers was born in Nossville, Tell Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1877. In 1895, ...
; Ranking Member: William F. Stevenson)
* United States House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman:
Richard N. Elliott
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Early life and career
Born near Connersville, Indiana, Elliott atten ...
; Ranking Member:
Fritz G. Lanham)
* United States House Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands (Chairman:
Nicholas J. Sinnott; Ranking Member:
John E. Raker
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Life
He was born near Knox ...
then
John M. Evans
John Morgan Evans (January 7, 1863 – March 12, 1946) was an American Democratic politician.
Biography
He was born in Sedalia, Missouri. Evans went to the United States Military Academy and then graduated from University of Missouri. He studi ...
)
* United States House Committee on Railways and Canals, Railways and Canals (Chairman: Oscar E. Keller; Ranking Member: William C. Lankford)
* United States House Committee on Revision of Laws, Revision of Laws (Chairman:
Roy G. Fitzgerald
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Birth and early life
He was born in Watertown, New York and move ...
; Ranking Member:
Alfred L. Bulwinkle)
* United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Rivers and Harbors (Chairman:
S. Wallace Dempsey; Ranking Member:
Joseph J. Mansfield)
* United States House Committee on Roads, Roads (Chairman:
Cassius C. Dowell; Ranking Member:
Edward B. Almon
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Early life
Almon was born near Moult ...
)
* United States House Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman: Bertrand H. Snell; Ranking Member:
Edward W. Pou
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)
* United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Standards of Official Conduct
* United States House Committee on Territories, Territories (Chairman:
Charles F. Curry
Charles Forrest Curry (March 14, 1858 – October 10, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from California and the father of Charles Forrest Curry, Jr.
Curry was born in Naperville, Illinois and attended the common schools and the Episcopal Ac ...
; Ranking Member: William C. Lankford)
* United States House Committee on War Claims, War Claims (Chairman:
James G. Strong
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Born in Dwight, Illinois, Strong attended the public schools of Dwight, Illinois from 1876 to 1879, the Episcopal Mission of Greenwood Agency, S.Da ...
; Ranking Member:
Bill G. Lowrey
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Early life
Bill Lowrey was born on May 25, 1862, in Kossuth, Mississippi. He attended public school and the Blue Mountain Academy in Blue Mount ...
)
* United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Ways and Means (Chairman:
William R. Green
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; Ranking Member: John N. Garner)
* United States House Committee on Woman Suffrage, Woman Suffrage (Chairman:
Wallace H. White Jr.
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; Ranking Member:
John E. Raker
John Edward Raker (February 22, 1863 – January 22, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic Party Congressional representative for California, serving eight terms from 1911 to 1926.
Life
He was born near Knox ...
then
Christopher D. Sullivan
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Life
Born in New York City, he attended the public schools, St. Jame ...
)
* United States House Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, World War Veterans' Legislation (Chairman:
Royal C. Johnson; Ranking Member:
Carl Hayden
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)
* Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives), Whole
Joint committees
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Civil Service Retirement Act, Civil Service Retirement Act
* United States Congress Joint Special Committee on Conditions of Indian Tribes, Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
* United States Congress Joint Committee to Determine what Employment may be Furnished Federal Prisoners, Determine what Employment may be Furnished Federal Prisoners (Chairman: Rep. George S. Graham)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Investigation of Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grants, Investigation of Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grants (Chairman: Rep.
Nicholas J. Sinnott)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Muscle Shoals, Muscle Shoals
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library, The Library (Chairman: Sen.
Simeon D. Fess
Simeon Davison Fess (December 11, 1861December 23, 1936) was a Republican politician and educator from Ohio, United States. He served in the United States House of Representatives (1915 to 1923) and U.S. Senate (1923 to 1935).
Early life
Born o ...
)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman: Sen.
George H. Moses
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Biography
George H. Moses was born ...
; Vice Chairman: Rep. Edgar R. Kiess)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Taxation, Taxation (Chairman: Rep.
William R. Green
William Raymond Green (November 7, 1856 – June 11, 1947) was a United States representative from Iowa, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and later was a judge of the Court of Claims. His son, William R. Green Jr., served on the ...
)
Caucuses
* House Democratic Caucus, Democratic (House)
* Senate Democratic Caucus, Democratic (Senate)
Employees
List of federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch, Legislative branch agency directors
* Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn (architect), David Lynn
* Comptroller General of the United States: John R. McCarl
* Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
* Public Printer of the United States: George H. Carter
Senate
* Chaplain of the United States Senate, Chaplain: John J. Muir (Baptist)
* Secretary of the United States Senate, Secretary: George A. Sanderson, until December 7, 1925
** Edwin Pope Thayer, Edwin P. Thayer, from December 7, 1925
* United States Senate Librarian, Librarian: Edward C. Goodwin
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, Sergeant at Arms: David S. Barry
House of Representatives
* Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain: James S. Montgomery (Methodism, Methodist)
* Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk: William T. Page
* Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Lehr Fess, resigned February 1, 1927
** Lewis Deschler, appointed February 1, 1927
* Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, Doorkeeper: Bert W. Kennedy
* Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Reading Clerks: Patrick Joseph Haltigan (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)
* Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives, Postmaster: Frank W. Collier
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, Sergeant at Arms: Joseph G. Rodgers
See also
* United States elections, 1924 (elections leading to this Congress)
** 1924 United States presidential election
** United States Senate elections, 1924
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1924
* United States elections, 1926 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
** United States Senate elections, 1926
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1926
References
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External links
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress*
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