Carroll Lynwood Beedy (August 3, 1880 – August 30, 1947) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Maine
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from 1921 to 1935.
He was born in
Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, on August 3, 1880. He attended the public schools of
Lewiston,
Androscoggin County,
Maine
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and graduated from
Bates College
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, Lewiston, Maine, in 1903 and from the law department of
Yale University
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in 1906. He was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice in
Portland, Maine
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. He became the prosecuting attorney of Cumberland County from 1917 to 1921. In the
Republican
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primary prior to the election, Beedy defeated
Mayor of Portland Charles Bailey Clarke
Charles Bailey Clarke (October 3, 1875 – January 27, 1944) was a Portland, Maine politician. Clarke married Ellen A. Cate in 1901. Clarke was born in Bangor, Maine. From 1918 to 1921, Clarke was the List of mayors of Portland, Maine, Mayor of Po ...
by 19 votes. He was subsequently elected to the 67th and the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 - January 3, 1935). He was also chairman of the Committee on Mileage (68th and 69th Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Labor (69th Congress), Committee on Elections No. 1 (70th and 71st Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the 74th Congress. He then practiced in law in
Washington, D.C.
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, until his death there August 30, 1947. Beedy was an active
Freemason
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...
.
[''10,000 Famous Freemasons from A to J Part One''
By William R. Denslow, Harry S. Truman
Contributor Harry S. Truman
Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2004
, ] He was interred in
Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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1880 births
1947 deaths
Maine lawyers
American prosecutors
Bates College alumni
Yale Law School alumni
People from Phillips, Maine
Politicians from Lewiston, Maine
Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine)
American Congregationalists
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American lawyers