Timothy Thomas Ansberry (December 24, 1871 – July 5, 1943) was a

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from

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Early life

Timothy T. Ansberry was born in

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. He attended public schools. He graduated from the

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, in June 1893. He was

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and commenced practice in

Career

Ansberry served as the

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from 1893 to 1895. He served as prosecuting attorney of

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from 1895 to 1903. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress. Ansberry was elected as a

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to the Sixtieth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until January 9, 1915, when he resigned to accept a judicial position. He served as chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 1 ( Sixty-second Congress). He was appointed associate judge of the

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, in which capacity he served until his resignation in 1916. He served as delegate to the 1920 Democratic National Convention at San Francisco and the

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at New York. Ansberry was a presidential elector in the 1916 presidential election. He moved to

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, in 1916 and engaged in the practice of law until his death.

Death

Ansberry died in

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on July 5, 1943. He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

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