William Webb Venable (September 25, 1880 – August 2, 1948) was a U.S. Representative from

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. Born in

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, Venable moved with his parents to

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, returned to

, in 1891. He attended public and private schools. He was graduated from Mississippi College at Clinton in 1898, from the

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in 1899, and from the law department of

Cumberland University Cumberland University is a private university in Lebanon, Tennessee. It was founded in 1842. The campus's current historic buildings were constructed between 1892 and 1896. History 1842-1861 The university was founded by the Cumberlan ...

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, in 1905. He was

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in 1905 and commenced practice in

Meridian, Mississippi Meridian is the seventh largest city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, with a population of 41,148 at the 2010 census and an estimated population in 2018 of 36,347. It is the county seat of Lauderdale County and the principal city of the Merid ...

. He served as prosecuting attorney of Lauderdale County from April to October 1910, when he was appointed district attorney. He served in the latter capacity until January 1, 1915, when he resigned. He served as judge of the tenth judicial district of Mississippi from 1915 until his resignation in December 1916. Venable was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel A. Witherspoon. He was reelected to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses and served from January 4, 1916, to March 3, 1921. He was an unsuccessful for renomination. Practiced law Clarksdale, Mississippi. He died in

New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

, August 2, 1948. He was interred in Magnolia Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Venable, William Webb 1880 births 1948 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi Mississippi state court judges 20th-century American judges 20th-century American politicians