Beverly Mills Vincent (March 28, 1890 – August 15, 1980) was a U.S. representative from

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. He was born in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky, March 28, 1890; attended the public schools,

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at Bowling Green, and the law department of the

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at Lexington; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in Brownsville, Kentucky. He was county judge of Edmonson County, Kentucky from 1916 to 1918. During the

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he served as a private in Battery A, 72nd Field Artillery Regiment at

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, Kentucky, from August 27, 1918, to January 9, 1919. He was assistant

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of Kentucky in 1919 and 1920; member of the

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1929–1933; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1932; and attorney general of Kentucky from 1936 until his resignation in March 1937. He was elected as a

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to the Seventy-fifth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

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, and reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (March 2, 1937 – January 3, 1945). In 1940, Congressman Vincent struck Congressman Martin Sweeney on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives as the House debated conscription during World War II. Sweeney opposed the draft bill; Vincent called him a "traitor", which led to the fistfight. As quoted in ''

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'' magazine "ancient Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnot ho favored the draftsaid it was the best blow he had heard in his 50 years in the House." He was not a candidate for renomination for the Seventy-ninth Congress in 1944; pursued agricultural interests, and resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Brownsville, Kentucky, until his death there on August 15, 1980.

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