John Levi Cable (April 15, 1884 – September 15, 1971) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and a great-grandson of

Joseph Cable Joseph Cable (April 17, 1801 – May 1, 1880) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Ohio for two terms from 1849 to 1853. He was the great-grandfather of Congressma ...

. Born in

Lima, Ohio Lima ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northwest Ohio along Interstate 75 in Ohio, Interstate 75 approximately north of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, southwest of Toledo, Ohio, T ...

, Cable attended public school. He received his undergraduate education from Kenyon College in

Gambier, Ohio Gambier is a village in Knox County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,391 at the 2010 census. Gambier is the home of Kenyon College. A major feature is a gravel path running the length of the village, referred to as "Middle Path". This ...

. Later he earned an LL.B. in 1906, and from the

George Washington University Law School The George Washington University Law School (GW Law) is the law school of George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. Established in 1865, GW Law is the oldest top law school in the national capital. GW Law offers the largest range of cou ...

, Washington, D.C., he earned a J.D. in 1909. He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in

. He served as prosecuting attorney of Allen County from 1917 to 1921. Cable was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925). He served as chairman of the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Sixty-eighth Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1924. He resumed the practice of law. Cable was again elected to the Seventy-first Congress. He was reelected to the Seventy-second Congress (March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1933). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress. He resumed the practice of law. He served as special assistant to Ohio Attorney General 1933-1937. He served as special counsel to the

Reconstruction Finance Corporation The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was a government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgag ...

in the liquidation of the Lima First American Bank & Trust Co. He was appointed Government appeal agent of Selective Service Board No. 2,

from 1948 to 1960. He was author and publisher. He died in

, on September 15, 1971. He is entombed in a niche in St. Boniface Episcopal Church, Sarasota, Florida. Cable was particularly interested in questions of citizenship and wrote several books on the topic. He was the motivating force behind the

Cable Act The Cable Act of 1922 (ch. 411, 42 Stat. 1021, "Married Women's Independent Nationality Act") was a United States federal law that partially reversed the Expatriation Act of 1907. (It is also known as the Married Women's Citizenship Act or the Wo ...

of 1922. Cable was married to Rhea Watson of

in 1911. They had two children. He was a

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 ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cable, John Levi 1884 births 1971 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio Politicians from Lima, Ohio Kenyon College alumni George Washington University Law School alumni County district attorneys in Ohio 20th-century American politicians