Colorado

Senate
Alva B. Adams
ADAMS, Alva Blanchard, a Senator from Colorado; born in Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colo., October 29, 1875; attended the common schools; graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1893; graduated from Yale University in 1896 and from Columbia Law School in 1899; admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Pueblo, Colo.; county attorney of Pueblo County 1909–1911; member of the charter convention of Pueblo in 1911; regent of the State University of Colorado 1911 and 1912; city attorney of Pueblo 1911–1915; during the First World War served as major in the Judge Advocate General's Department 1918–1919; appointed on May 17, 1923, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel D. Nicholson and served from May 17, 1923, to November 30, 1924, when a successor was elected and qualified; not a candidate for the special election to fill remainder of term, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the 1924 general election; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932; reelected in 1938, and served from March 4, 1933, until his death; chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-seventh Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., due to heart attack, on December 1, 1941; interment in Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colorado.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: Pueblo
Died December 1, 1941.

Senate
Edwin C. Johnson
JOHNSON, Edwin Carl, a Senator from Colorado; born in Scandia, Republic County, Kans., January 1, 1884; moved with his parents to a cattle ranch near Elsie, Nebr., in 1884; attended the rural schools; employed as railroad laborer, telegrapher, and train dispatcher 1901–1909; homesteaded on government land in Colorado in 1910; operated the Farmers' Cooperative Milling Elevator and also engaged in the produce business 1920–1930; member, State house of representatives 1923–1931; lieutenant governor of Colorado 1931–1933 and Governor 1933–1937; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1936; reelected in 1942 and again in 1948 and served from January 3, 1937, to January 3, 1955; was not a candidate for reelection in 1954; chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), Select Committee on the Joseph McCarthy Censure (Eighty-third Congress); Governor of Colorado 1955–1957; was not a candidate for renomination in 1956; retired but remained active as a volunteer on several State commissions and committees; died in Denver, Colo., May 30, 1970; interment in Fairmont Mausoleum.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Craig

Senate
Eugene D. Millikin
MILLIKIN, Eugene Donald, a Senator from Colorado; born in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, February 12, 1891; attended the public schools; graduated, law school of the University of Colorado at Boulder 1913; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Salt Lake City, Utah; executive secretary to the Governor 1915–1917; during the First World War enlisted as a private in the Colorado National Guard in 1917; saw action in France and was mustered out as a lieutenant colonel; resumed the practice of law in Denver, Colo.; president of Kinney-Coastal Oil Co.; appointed on December 20, 1941, and subsequently elected on November 3, 1942, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1945, caused by the death of Alva B. Adams; reelected in 1944 and 1950 and served from December 20, 1941, to January 3, 1957; was not a candidate for renomination in 1956; chairman, Committee on Finance (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses), Republican Conference (Eightieth through Eighty-fourth Congresses), Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses); died in Denver, Colo., July 26, 1958; interment in Fairmount Cemetery.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 77 78 79
Hometown: Denver
Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Alva B. Adams, and took his seat January 5, 1942; subsequently elected.

House
Fred Cummings
CUMMINGS, Fred Nelson, a Representative from Colorado; born on a farm near Groveton, Coos County, N.H., September 18, 1864; in 1865 moved with his parents to Clinton, Iowa, and in 1879 to a farm near West Union, Custer County, Nebr.; attended the rural schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits and the raising of livestock; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in Custer County, Nebr.; moved to Fort Collins, Colo., in 1906 and resumed agricultural pursuits; member of the city council of Fort Collins 1909–1913; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933–January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed his former pursuits; died in Fort Collins, Colo., November 10, 1952; interment in Grandview Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76
Hometown: Fort Collins

House
John A. Martin
MARTIN, John Andrew, a Representative from Colorado; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 10, 1868; moved with his parents to Fulton, Mo., in 1872; attended the public schools of Mexico and Fulton, Mo.; moved with his parents to Kansas in 1884 and worked on a farm; moved to Colorado in 1887; employed on railroad construction work and as a locomotive fireman 1887–1894; member of the city council of La Junta in 1895 and 1896, and published the La Junta Times during the same period; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Pueblo, Colo., in 1897; member of the State house of representatives in 1901 and 1902; city attorney in 1905 and 1906; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses (March 4, 1909–March 3, 1913); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1912; resumed the practice of law; again city attorney in 1916 and 1917; during the First World War recruited a volunteer battalion and was commissioned a major; resumed the practice of law in Pueblo, Colo.; elected to the Seventy-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., December 23, 1939; interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Pueblo, Colo.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76
Hometown: Pueblo
Died December 23, 1939.

House
William E. Burney
BURNEY, William Evans, a Representative from Colorado; born in Hubbard, Hill County, Tex., September 11, 1893; attended the public schools in Texas and the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque; during the First World War served in the United States Navy; moved to Pueblo, Colo., in 1924 and engaged in the life insurance business until 1942; member of the Pueblo board of education 1937–1943; member of the United States Army Reserve Corps 1924–1942, serving in all grades up to major; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Martin and served from November 5, 1940, to January 3, 1941; was not a candidate for election to the full term in the Seventy-seventh Congress; was called to active duty in the Army as a major in January 1942 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in October 1942; returned to the United States from India and took command of Camp Ross in May 1945; left the service in December 1945 with the rank of colonel; resumed the life insurance business until his retirement; died in Denver, Colo., January 29, 1969; interment in Fairmount Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 76
Hometown: Pueblo
Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of John A. Martin, and took his seat November 28, 1940.

House
J. Edgar Chenoweth
CHENOWETH, John Edgar, a Representative from Colorado; born in Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colo., August 17, 1897; attended the public and high schools, and the University of Colorado at Boulder; engaged in railroading and in the mercantile business 1916–1925; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice in Trinidad in 1926; assistant district attorney for the third judicial district 1929–1933; county judge of Las Animas County, Colo., 1933–1941; member, Advisory Board of Colorado Women's College, now Temple Buell; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941–January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected to the Eighty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951–January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Trinidad, Colo., until his death there January 2, 1986; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 77 78
Hometown: Trinidad

House
Dean M. Gillespie
GILLESPIE, Dean Milton, a Representative from Colorado; born in Salina, Saline County, Kans., May 3, 1884; attended the public schools and Salina Normal University; engaged in agricultural pursuits and cattle raising in Clay County, Kans., 1900–1904; moved to Denver, Colo., in 1905 and worked as grocery clerk, sign painter, and salesman; engaged in the automobile and oil business since 1905; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lawrence Lewis, reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress, and served from March 7, 1944, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; reengaged in his former business pursuits until his death, while on a business trip, in Baltimore, Md., February 2, 1949; interment in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 78 79
Hometown: Denver
Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Lawrence Lewis, and took his seat March 30, 1944.

House
William S. Hill
HILL, William Silas, a Representative from Colorado; born in Kelly, Nemaha County, Kans., January 20, 1886; attended the public schools, Kansas State Normal at Emporia, and Colorado State College of Agriculture at Fort Collins; homesteaded near Cheyenne Wells, Colo., 1907–1915; superintendent of Cache la Poudre Consolidated School of Larimer County, Colo., 1919–1922; secretary of the Colorado State Farm Bureau in 1923; served in the State house of representatives 1924–1926; engaged in the mercantile business at Fort Collins, Colo., 1927–1953; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941–January 3, 1959); chairman, Select Committee on Small Business (Eighty-third Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; retired in 1958 and operated a farm southwest of Fort Collins until 1969; delegate to Republican National Convention in 1964; died in Fort Collins, Colo., August 28, 1972; interment in Grandview Cemetery.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 77 78 79
Hometown: Fort Collins

House
Lewis Lawrence
LEWIS, Lawrence, a Representative from Colorado; born in St. Louis, Mo., June 22, 1879; attended the public schools in Evanston, Ill., Cambridge, Mass., and Pueblo, Colo., and the University of Colorado at Boulder; was graduated from Harvard University in 1901; engaged in newspaper and magazine work in Pueblo and Denver, Colo., 1901–1906; assistant instructor in English, Harvard University, 1906–1909; was graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1909; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Denver, Colo.; member of Colorado Civil Service Commission 1917–1918; private in the Seventeenth Observation Battery, Field Artillery, Central Officers' Training School, October to December 1918; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1933 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Harold Louderback, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; died in Washington, D.C., on December 9, 1943; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78
Hometown: Denver
Died December 9, 1943.

Kansas

Senate
Arthur Capper
CAPPER, Arthur, a Senator from Kansas; born in Garnett, Anderson County, Kans., July 14, 1865; attended the common schools; learned the art of printing and subsequently became a newspaper reporter; owner and publisher of the Topeka Daily Capital, Capper's Weekly, Capper's Farmer, the Household Magazine, and other publications; owner of two radio stations; president of the board of regents, Kansas Agricultural College 1910–1913; founded The Capper Foundation, Topeka, Kans., in 1920; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Kansas in 1912; Governor of Kansas 1915–1919; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1918; reelected in 1924, 1930, 1936, and again in 1942 and served from March 4, 1919, to January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Claims (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses), Committee on District of Columbia (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-second Congresses), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Eightieth Congress); returned to Topeka, Kans., and continued publishing business; died in Topeka, Kans., December 19, 1951; interment in Topeka Cemetery.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79
Hometown: Topeka

Senate
George McGill
McGILL, George, a Senator from Kansas; born on a farm near Russell, Lucas County, Iowa, February 12, 1879; moved to Kansas with his parents, who settled on a farm near Dundee, Barton County, in 1884; attended the common schools; graduated from Central Normal College, Great Bend, Kans., in 1900; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Hoisington, Kans.; moved to Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans., in 1904 and continued the practice of law; deputy county attorney of Sedgwick County 1907–1911, and county attorney 1911–1915; elected on November 4, 1930, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles Curtis; reelected in 1932 and served from December 1, 1930, to January 3, 1939; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 and for election in 1942, 1948, and 1954; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Seventy-third through Seventy-fifth Congresses); member of the United States Tariff Commission 1944–1954; resumed the practice of law in Wichita, Kans., until his death in St. Francis Hospital on May 14, 1963; interment in Pawnee Rock Cemetery, Pawnee Rock, Kans.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Wichita

Senate
Clyde M. Reed
REED, Clyde Martin, a Senator from Kansas; born near Champaign, Champaign County, Ill., October 19, 1871; moved with his family to Labette County, Kans., in 1875; attended the public schools; taught school one year; served in the railway mail service 1889–1910, rising through all grades to field superintendent of divisions at Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio, New Orleans, La., Omaha, Nebr., and St. Paul, Minn., and superintendent, Railway Adjustment Division, Post Office Department; resigned in 1917 to manage and publish a newspaper at Parsons, Kans.; secretary to the Governor of Kansas 1919; member, Kansas Industrial Court 1920; chairman of the Kansas Public Utilities Commission 1921–1924; Governor of Kansas 1929–1931; practiced extensively before the Interstate Commerce Commission; elected in 1938 as a Republican to the United States Senate, reelected in 1944 and served from January 3, 1939, until his death; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1942; died in Parsons, Kans., November 8, 1949; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Parsons

House
William P. Lambertson
LAMBERTSON, William Purnell, a Representative from Kansas; born in Fairview, Brown County, Kans., March 23, 1880; attended the public schools, Ottawa (Kans.) University, and the law school of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1909–1911 and 1919–1921, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1911 and as speaker in 1919; served in the State senate 1913–1915; chairman of Kansas State Efficiency and Economy Commission in 1917; member of Kansas State Board of Administration 1923–1925; unsuccessful candidate for nomination for Governor in 1922 and for Congress in 1924 and 1926; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929–January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1944; returned to his farm near Fairview, Kans.; was defeated for the Republican nomination to Congress in 1946; mayor of Fairview from April 1949 until he resigned in December 1952; chairman, Board of County Commissioners of Brown County, Kans., 1953–1956; died in Fairview, Kans., October 26, 1957; interment in Sabetha Cemetery, Sabetha, Kans.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78
Hometown: Fairview

House
Ulysses S. Guyer
GUYER, Ulysses Samuel, a Representative from Kansas; born near Pawpaw, Lee County, Ill., December 13, 1868; attended the public schools, Lane University at Lecompton, Kans., and the University of Kansas School of Law at Lawrence; principal of St. John (Kans.) High School and superintendent of the city schools of St. John 1896–1901; was admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Kansas City, Kans.; judge of the first division city court of Kansas City, 1907–1909; mayor of Kansas City, 1909–1910; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward C. Little and served from November 4, 1924, to March 3, 1925; was not a candidate for election for the full term in 1924; resumed the practice of law in Kansas City; again elected to the Seventieth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1927, until his death; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1933 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Harold Louderback, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; died in Bethesda, Md., June 5, 1943; interment in Fairview Cemetery, St. John, Kans.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78
Hometown: Kansas City
Died June 5, 1943.

House
Edward W. Patterson
PATTERSON, Edward White, a Representative from Kansas; born in Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kans., October 4, 1895; attended the public schools; during the First World War served as a sergeant in the Thirty-fifth Division, American Expeditionary Forces, from May 1917 to March 1919; after the war attended the University of Chicago at Chicago, Ill.; was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1922; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Pittsburg, Kans.; prosecuting attorney of Crawford County, Kans., 1926–1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Pittsburg, Kans., until his death in Weir, Kans., March 6, 1940; interment in Highland Park Cemetery, Pittsburg, Kans.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Pittsburg

House
Edward H. Rees
REES, Edward Herbert, a Representative from Kansas; born on a farm near Emporia, Lyon County, Kans., June 3, 1886; attended the public schools and the Kansas State Teachers' College at Emporia; taught school in Lyon County, Kans., 1909–1911; clerk of the court of Lyon County, Kans., 1912–1918; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in Emporia, Kans.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1927–1933; served in the State senate 1933–1935; member of the Kansas Judicial Council 1933–1937; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937–January 3, 1961); chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1960; resumed the practice of law in Emporia, where he died October 25, 1969; interment in Maplewood Cemetery.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Emporia

House
John M. Houston
HOUSTON, John Mills, a Representative from Kansas; born on a farm near Formosa, Jewell County, Kans., September 15, 1890; attended the public schools of Wichita, Kans., St. John's Military School, Salina, Kans., and Fairmount University, Wichita, Kans.; engaged in the theatrical business 1912–1917; during the First World War served as a noncommissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps 1917–1919; engaged in the retail lumber business at Newton, Kans., 1919–1934; mayor of Newton 1927–1931; secretary of the Democratic State central committee in 1934 and 1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; appointed a member of the National Labor Relations Board on March 15, 1943, and served until his retirement on August 27, 1953; resided in Laguna Beach, Calif., where he died April 29, 1975; interment in Melrose Abbey Cemetery, Anaheim, Calif.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: Newton

House
Frank Carlson
CARLSON, Frank, a Representative and a Senator from Kansas; born in Concordia, Cloud County, Kans., January 23, 1893; attended the public schools, Concordia (Kans.) Normal and Business College, and Kansas State College at Manhattan; during the First World War served as a private in the United States Army 1918–1919; engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising; member, State house of representatives 1929–1933; chairman of the Republican State committee 1932–1934; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; Governor of Kansas from 1947 until his resignation in November 1950, having been elected a Senator; chairman of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission in 1949; chairman of the National Governors' Conference in 1950; elected on November 7, 1950, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Clyde M. Reed for the term ending January 3, 1951, and also for the full term commencing January 3, 1951; reelected in 1956, and again in 1962; and served from November 29, 1950, to January 3, 1969; was not a candidate for reelection in 1968; chairman, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (Eighty-third Congress); died in Concordia, Kans., May 30, 1987; interment in Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Concordia

House
Clifford R. Hope
HOPE, Clifford Ragsdale, a Representative from Kansas; born in Birmingham, Van Buren County, Iowa, June 9, 1893; attended the public schools and Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebr.; was graduated from Washburn Law School, Topeka, Kans., in 1917 and was admitted to the bar the same year; during the First World War served as a second lieutenant with the Thirty-fifth and Eighty-fifth Divisions in the United States and France 1917–1919; commenced practice of law in Garden City, Kans., in 1919; member of the State house of representatives 1921–1927, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1923 and as speaker in 1925; elected as a Republican to the Seventieth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1927–January 3, 1957); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1956; president, Great Plains Wheat, Inc., of Garden City, Kans., 1959–1963; died in Garden City, Kans., May 16, 1970; interment in Valley View Cemetery.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Garden City

House
Thomas D. Winter
WINTER, Thomas Daniel, a Representative from Kansas; born in Columbus, Cherokee County, Kans., July 7, 1896; attended the public and high schools; during the First World War served as a private in the United States Air Corps in 1918 and 1919; court reporter of the district court of Crawford County, Kans., 1921–1927; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and commenced practice in Girard, Kans.; assistant county attorney of Crawford County, Kans., in 1927 and 1928 and county attorney in 1929 and 1930; commissioner of public utilities of Girard 1933–1935; commissioner of finance of Girard 1936–1938; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939–January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; returned to Girard, Kans., and continued to practice law; died in Pittsburg, Kans., November 7, 1951; interment in Park Cemetery, Columbus, Kans.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Girard

House
Errett P. Scrivner
SCRIVNER, Errett Power, a Representative from Kansas; born in Newton, Harvey County, Kans., March 20, 1898; attended the grade schools and was graduated from Manual Training High School, Kansas City, Mo.; during the First World War enlisted in Battery B, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Field Artillery, in July 1917; served overseas in 1918 and 1919; awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart Medals; was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1925; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Kansas City, Kans.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress, by special election, September 14, 1943, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of U.S. Guyer; reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from September 14, 1943 to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; special assistant to the comptroller, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., from January 1959 to March 1960; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Public Affairs, from March 7, 1960, to January 20, 1961; city commissioner, Cocoa Beach, 1970; resided in Cocoa Beach, Fla., until his death there May 5, 1978; cremated; entombment in a crypt at Florida Memorial Gardens, Rockledge, Fla.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 78 79
Hometown: Kansas City
Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Ulysses S. Guyer, and took his seat September 28, 1943.

House
Albert M. Cole
COLE, Albert McDonald, a Representative from Kansas; born in Moberly, Randolph County, Mo., October 13, 1901; moved to Topeka, Kans., in 1909; attended the grade schools of Topeka, Kans., Sabetha (Kans.) High School, and Washburn College, Topeka, Kans.; LL.B., University of Chicago, 1925; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and commenced practice in Holton, Kans.; county attorney of Jackson County 1927–1931; member and president of the Holton School Board 1931–1943; member of the State senate 1941–1945; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945–January 3, 1953); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington, D.C., from March 1953 to January 1959; vice president of Reynolds Aluminum Service Corp. 1959–1961, president, Reynolds Metals Development Corp., 1961–1967, and director 1967–1970; practiced law in Washington, D.C., from 1967 to 1990; was a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death there on June 5, 1994.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 79
Hometown: Holton

Montana

Senate
Burton K. Wheeler
WHEELER, Burton Kendall, a Senator from Montana; born in Hudson, Middlesex County, Mass., February 27, 1882; attended the common schools; worked as a stenographer in Boston, Mass.; graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Butte, Silver Bow County, Mont.; member, State house of representatives 1910–1912; United States district attorney for Montana 1913–1918; resumed the practice of law in Butte; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Montana in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1922 for the term ending March 3, 1929; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1924 on the Progressive Party ticket; reelected to the United States Senate in 1928, 1934 and 1940 and served from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-third Congress), Committee on Interstate Commerce (Seventy-fourth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); resumed the practice of law; died in Washington, D.C., January 6, 1975; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Butte

Senate
James E. Murray
MURRAY, James Edward, a Senator from Montana; born on a farm near St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, May 3, 1876; attended the public schools of Canada; graduated from St. Jerome's College, Berlin, Canada, in 1897; came to the United States in 1897, settled in Butte, Mont., and was naturalized in 1900; graduated from the law department of New York University in 1900; admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in Butte, Mont.; also engaged in banking; county attorney of Silver Bow County, Mont., 1906–1908; chairman of the State advisory board of the Public Works Administration 1933–1934; elected on November 6, 1934, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas J. Walsh; reelected in 1936, 1942, 1948 and 1954 and served from November 7, 1934, to January 3, 1961; was not a candidate for renomination in 1960; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Seventy-ninth Congress), co-chairman, Joint Committee on Labor-Management Relations (Eighty-first Congress), chairman, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (Eighty-second Congress), Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-sixth Congresses); died in Butte, Mont., March 23, 1961; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Butte

House
Jerry J. O'Connell
O'CONNELL, Jerry Joseph, a Representative from Montana; born in Butte, Silver Bow County, Mont., June 14, 1909; attended the parochial schools and Butte Central High School; was graduated from Carroll College (formerly Mount St. Charles College), Helena, Mont., in 1931, and from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1934; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1934; served in the State house of representatives 1931–1934; member of the Montana Public Service Commission 1934–1936; delegate to the Democratic State conventions 1930–1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937–January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; newspaper editor and publisher in Hamilton, Mont., 1939–1941; commenced the practice of law in Butte, Mont., in 1940; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1944; moved to Seattle, Wash., in June 1944; executive secretary of the Washington State Democratic Central Committee from December 1944 to January 1947, for the Roosevelt Democrats in 1947, and for the Washington State Progressive Party in 1948 and 1949; returned to Montana in 1950 and practiced law in Great Falls until his death there January 16, 1956; interment in Great Falls Mausoleum.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Butte

House
James F. O'Connor
O'CONNOR, James Francis, a Representative from Montana; born on a farm near California Junction, Iowa, May 7, 1878; attended the grade schools and normal school in Iowa; was graduated from the law department of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1904; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Livingston, Mont., in 1905; also engaged in stock raising, ranching, and banking; judge of the sixth judicial district of Montana in 1912; member of the State house of representatives 1917–1918 and served as speaker; special counsel for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., in 1918; member of Park County High School Board for a number of years; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1937, until his death in Washington, D.C., on January 15, 1945; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-eighth Congress); interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Livingston, Mont.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Livingston
Died January 15, 1945.

House
Jacob Thorkelson
THORKELSON, Jacob, a Representative from Montana; born in Egersund, Norway, September 24, 1876; attended elementary schools; immigrated to the United States in 1892 and studied navigation; engaged as a navigator in 1896 and served as master of ocean-going ships 1900–1907; served with the Virginia Naval Reserve 1897–1899; was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Maryland, at Baltimore in 1911, and served as a member of the faculty 1911–1913; moved to Dillon, Beaverhead County, Mont., in 1913, to Warmsprings, Deer Lodge County, Mont., in 1915, and to Butte, Silver Bow County, Mont., in 1920, and practiced medicine and surgery; served in the United States Naval Reserve 1936–1939 with rank of lieutenant commander; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939–January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1940; resumed the practice of medicine and surgery; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in 1942 and for Governor in 1944; died in Butte, Mont., November 20, 1945; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 76
Hometown: Butte

House
Jeannette Rankin
RANKIN, Jeannette, a Representative from Montana; born near Missoula, Missoula County, Mont., June 11, 1880; attended the public schools, and was graduated from the University of Montana at Missoula in 1902; student at the School of Philanthropy, New York City in 1908 and 1909; social worker in Seattle, Wash., in 1909; engaged in promoting the cause of woman suffrage in the State of Washington in 1910, in California in 1911, and in Montana 1912–1914; visited New Zealand in 1915 and worked as a seamstress in order to gain personal knowledge of social conditions; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917–March 3, 1919); was the first woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives; did not seek renomination in 1918, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Senator; was also an unsuccessful candidate on an independent ticket for election to the United States Senate; engaged in social work; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941–January 3, 1943); was not a candidate for renomination in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; resumed lecturing and ranching; member, National Consumers League; field worker, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; member, National Council for Prevention of War; remained leader and lobbyist for peace and women's rights until her death in Carmel, Calif., May 18, 1973; cremated; ashes scattered on ocean, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 77
Hometown: Missoula

House
Mike Mansfield
MANSFIELD, Michael Joseph (Mike), a Representative and a Senator from Montana; born in New York City, March 16, 1903; moved with his family to Great Falls, Cascade County, Mont., in 1906; attended the public schools in Great Falls; served as a seaman when only fourteen years old in the United States Navy during the First World War, as a private in the United States Army in 1919–1920, and as a private first class in the United States Marine Corps 1920–1922; worked as a miner and mining engineer in Butte, Mont., 1922–1930; attended the Montana School of Mines at Butte in 1927 and 1928; graduated from Montana State University at Missoula in 1933, and received a masters degree from that institution in 1934; also attended the University of California at Los Angeles in 1936 and 1937; professor of history and political science at the Montana State University 1933–1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress; reelected to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943–January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for reelection in 1952, having become a candidate for the Senate; chairman, Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures (Eighty-first Congress); was elected to the United States Senate in 1952; reelected in 1958, 1964, and 1970 and served from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1977; Democratic whip 1957–1961; majority leader 1961–1977; chairman, Committee on Rules and Administration (Eighty-seventh Congress), Select Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents (Ninety-second Congress), Special Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents (Ninety-third Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1976; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan 1977–1988; East Asian advisor, Goldman, Sachs; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 19, 1989; was a resident of Washington, D.C. until his death due to congestive heart failure on October 5, 2001; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 78 79
Hometown: Missoula

House
Wesley A. D'Ewart
D'EWART, Wesley Abner, a Representative from Montana; born in Worcester, Mass., October 1, 1889; attended the public schools of Worcester, Mass., and Washington State College at Pullman; moved to Wilsall, Park County, Mont., in 1910 and engaged in the Forest Service; stockman, farmer, and businessman in Park County, Mont.; served in the State house of representatives 1937–1939; member of the State senate 1941–1945; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth Congress, by special election, June 5, 1945, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James F. O'Connor; reelected to the four succeeding Congresses and served from June 5, 1945, to January 3, 1955; was not a candidate for renomination in 1954, but was unsuccessful for election to the United States Senate; assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., from January 1955 to September 1955; assistant secretary, Department of the Interior, from October 1955 to July 1956; special representative to Secretary of Agriculture from August 1956 to October 1958; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Montana in 1960; member, Western States Water Council, 1966–1969; was a director of the National Water Resources Association; resided in Wilsall, Mont.; died in Livingston, Mont., September 2, 1973; interment in Mountain View Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000281
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 79
Hometown: Wilsall
Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of James F. O'Connor, and took his seat June 25, 1945.

Nebraska

Senate
George W. Norris
NORRIS, George William, a Representative and a Senator from Nebraska; born on a farm near Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio, on July 11, 1861; attended the district schools, Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, and the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso; taught school while studying law; graduated from the law department of Valparaiso (Ind.) University in 1883 and was admitted to the bar the same year; continued teaching until he moved to Beaver City, Furnas County, Nebr., in 1885; engaged in the practice of law; county attorney of Furnas County for three terms; district judge of the fourteenth district 1895–1902; moved to McCook, Red Willow County, Nebr., in 1899; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903–March 3, 1913); did not seek renomination in 1912, having become a candidate for Senator; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1912 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Judge Robert W. Archbald; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1912; reelected in 1918, 1924, and 1930, and as an Independent in 1936, and served from March 4, 1913, to January 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942; chairman, Committee on the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Patents (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Sixty-seventh through Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on the Judiciary (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-second Congresses); known as the "father of the TVA," the first of that project's dams was named Norris Dam; retired from public life; died in McCook, Nebr., September 2, 1944; interment in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000139
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: McCook

Senate
Edward R. Burke
BURKE, Edward Raymond, a Representative and a Senator from Nebraska; born at Running Water, Bon Homme County, S.Dak., November 28, 1880; moved with his parents to Sparta, Monroe County, Wis., in 1880; educated in the public schools of Sparta, Wis.; moved to Beloit, Rock County, in 1902; graduated from Beloit (Wis.) College in 1906; taught school in Chadron, Nebr. 1906–1908; graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1911; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Omaha, Nebr.; during the First World War enlisted and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Service 1917–1919; president of the board of education of Omaha 1927–1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933–January 3, 1935); did not seek renomination in 1934, having become a candidate for United States Senator; elected to the United States Senate in 1934 and served from January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1941; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1940; chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Omaha, Nebr.; moved to Washington, D.C., in 1942 and served as president of Southern Coal Producers Association until 1947; Washington representative and general counsel for Hawaiian Statehood Commission until 1950; retired and resided in Kensington, Md., until his death there on November 4, 1968; interment in Fort Lincoln Mausoleum.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76
Hometown: Omaha

Senate
Hugh A. Butler
BUTLER, Hugh Alfred, a Senator from Nebraska; born on a farm near Missouri Valley, Harrison County, Iowa, February 28, 1878; attended the public schools and was graduated from Doane College at Crete, Nebr., in 1900; construction engineer with the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad 1900–1908; member of the city board of Curtis, Nebr. 1908–1913; engaged in the flour-milling and grain business 1908–1940; member of the board of education of Omaha, Nebr.; Republican National committeeman for Nebraska 1936–1940; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1940; reelected in 1946 and again in 1952 and served from January 3, 1941, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., July 1, 1954; chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Eightieth Congress), Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-third Congress); interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 77 78 79
Hometown: Omaha

Senate
Kenneth S. Wherry
WHERRY, Kenneth Spicer, a Senator from Nebraska; born in Liberty, Gage County, Nebr., February 28, 1892; attended the public schools and graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1914; attended Harvard University in 1915 and 1916; during the First World War served in the United States Navy Flying Corps in 1917 and 1918; engaged in the sale of automobiles, furniture, and in livestock farming; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Pawnee City, Nebr.; member of the Pawnee City council in 1927 and 1929; mayor of Pawnee City 1929–1931, 1938–1943; member, State senate 1929–1932; unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1932; unsuccessful candidate for nomination for United States Senator in 1934; western director for the Republican National Committee 1941–1942; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1942; reelected in 1948 and served from January 3, 1943, until his death; Republican whip 1944–1949; minority leader 1949–1951; chairman, Special Committee on Problems of Small Business (Eightieth Congress); died in Washington, D.C., November 29, 1951; interment in Pawnee City Cemetery, Pawnee City, Nebr.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000344
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 78 79
Hometown: Pawnee City

House
Henry C. Luckey
LUCKEY, Henry Carl, a Representative from Nebraska; born near East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., November 22, 1868; moved to Nebraska with his parents, who settled on a farm near Columbus in Platte County in 1873; attended the public schools and the Lutheran parochial school in Columbus, Nebr.; was graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1912; pursued a postgraduate course at Columbia University, New York City in 1914 and 1915; engaged in agricultural pursuits near Columbus, Nebr., 1894–1900; moved to Lincoln, Nebr., in 1900; was admitted to the bar in 1912 but did not practice; engaged in the real estate business and in the construction of homes 1917–1927; member of the board of trustees of Midland College, Fremont, Nebr., 1919–1925; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed the real estate business and also engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1946, when he retired and moved to Richmond, Calif.; died in El Cerrito, Calif., December 31, 1956; interment in Sunset View Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Lincoln

House
Charles F. McLaughlin
McLAUGHLIN, Charles Francis, a Representative from Nebraska; born in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebr., June 19, 1887; attended the public schools; was graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1908 and from the law department of Columbia University, New York City in 1910; was admitted to the bar in 1910 and commenced practice in Omaha, Nebr.; special master in chancery in Federal Court 1916–1918; during the First World War served as captain of the Three Hundred and Forty-seventh Field Artillery, Ninety-first Division, American Expeditionary Forces, until his discharge, April 30, 1919; major in the Officers' Reserve Corps, 1919–1921; delegate to the Nebraska State constitutional convention in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; member of the American-Mexican Claims Commission, Washington, D.C., 1943–1947; member of the Indian Claims Commission from April 5, 1947, until November 14, 1949; took the oath of office November 15, 1949, as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia, became a senior United States district court judge for the District of Columbia on December 31, 1964, and continued to hear cases until June 1974; resided in Washington, D.C., where he died February 5, 1976; interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Md.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: Omaha

House
Karl Stefan
STEFAN, Karl, a Representative from Nebraska; born on a farm near Zebrakov, Bohemia, March 1, 1884; immigrated to the United States in 1885 with his parents, who settled in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr.; attended the public schools in Omaha, Nebr., and later the Y.M.C.A. night school; private in the Illinois National Guard; lieutenant in the Nebraska National Guard; served as inspector of telegraph in Philippine Constabulary 1904–1906; moved to Norfolk, Nebr., in 1909; served as telegrapher and later as city editor of the Norfolk Daily News until 1924; radio commentator and contributor to newspapers and magazines until 1934; president of the Stefan Co., publishers' agent for magazines and newspapers; member of congressional committee aiding inauguration of Philippine Commonwealth Government, Manila, P. I., 1935; delegate to the Interparliamentary Union, Oslo, Norway, in 1939; official adviser, United Nations Conference, San Francisco, Calif., in 1945; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1935, until his death in Washington, D.C., October 2, 1951; interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Norfolk, Nebr.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Norfolk

House
Charles G. Binderup
BINDERUP, Charles Gustav, a Representative from Nebraska; born in Horsens, Denmark, March 5, 1873; when six months old immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled on a farm near Hastings, Adams County, Nebr.; attended the county schools and Grand Island (Nebr.) Business College; engaged in agricultural pursuits near Hastings and Minden, Nebr., and also in the mercantile and creamery business at Minden, Nebr.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1939); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election as an Independent in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; organized and was active in the Constitutional Money League of America in Minden, Nebr., until his death; died in Minden, Nebr., August 19, 1950; interment in Minden Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Minden

House
Harry B. Coffee
COFFEE, Harry Buffington, a Representative from Nebraska; born near Harrison, Sioux County, Nebr., March 16, 1890; attended the public schools at Chadron, Nebr.; University of Nebraska at Lincoln, A.B., 1913; engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Chadron, Nebr., 1914–1939; served as a second lieutenant in the Air Service in 1917 and 1918; organized the Coffee Cattle Co., Inc., in 1915 with extensive ranch holdings in Sioux County, Nebr.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1943); was not a candidate for renomination in 1942, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate; president of a stockyard company and also of a terminal railway company from 1943 until 1961 when he was named chairman of the board; died in Omaha, Nebr., October 3, 1972; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: Chadron

House
George H. Heinke
HEINKE, George Henry, a Representative from Nebraska; born on a farm near Dunbar, Otoe County, Nebr., July 22, 1882; moved with his parents to Douglas, Nebr., in 1889, to San Angelo, Tex., in 1891, and to Talmage, Nebr., in 1894; attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1908; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Nebraska City, Nebr.; prosecuting attorney of Otoe County, Nebr., 1919–1923 and 1927–1935; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress and served from January 3, 1939, until his death in Morrilton, Ark., January 2, 1940, as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident near there while en route to Washington, D.C., to attend a session of Congress; interment in Wyuka Cemetery, Nebraska City, Nebr.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 76
Hometown: Nebraska City
Died January 2, 1940.

House
John Hyde Sweet
SWEET, John Hyde, a Representative from Nebraska; born in Milford, Otsego County, N.Y., September 1, 1880; moved to Palmyra, Nebr. in 1885; attended Palmyra high school; attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr.; attended the Lincoln Business College, Lincoln, Nebr.; court reporter in western Nebraska, 1899–1900; wholesale grocer in Nebraska City 1902–1909; newspaper publisher; delegate to the Progressive National Convention, 1912; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative George H. Heinke (April 19, 1940–January 3, 1941); was not a candidate for renomination to the Seventy-seventh Congress in 1940; died on April 4, 1964, in Wickenburg, Ariz.; interment in Wyuka Cemetery, Nebraska City, Nebr.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 76
Hometown: Nebraska City
Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of George H. Heinke, and took his seat April 17, 1940.

House
Carl T. Curtis
CURTIS, Carl Thomas, a Representative and a Senator from Nebraska; born near Minden, Kearney County, Nebr., March 15, 1905; attended the public schools, and Nebraska Wesleyan University at Lincoln; teacher in the Minden, Nebr., schools in 1927; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1930 and commenced practice in Minden; county attorney of Kearney County, Nebr. 1931–1934; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his resignation December 31,1954; was not a candidate for reelection; elected as a Republican in 1954 to the United States Senate for the six-year term commencing January 3, 1955; subsequently appointed by the Governor, January 1, 1955, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hazel H. Abel for the term ending January 3, 1955; reelected in 1960, 1966, and again in 1972 and served from January 1, 1955, to January 3, 1979; was not a candidate for reelection in 1978; chairman, Republican Conference (1975–1979); practiced law in Lincoln, Nebr. where he was a resident until his death on January 24, 2000; interment in Minden Cemetery in Minden, Nebr.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Minden

House
Oren S. Copeland
COPELAND, Oren Sturman, a Representative from Nebraska; born on a farm near Huron, Beadle County, S.Dak., March 16, 1887; moved with his parents to Pender, Nebr., in 1891; attended the public schools at Pender; attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln 1904–1907; engaged in newspaper work at Lincoln, Nebr., in 1910 and in the fuel business in 1913; served as city commissioner, department of public safety, 1935–1937; mayor of Lincoln from 1937 until his resignation in 1940; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941–January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; resumed the retail fuel business; died in Lincoln, Nebr., April 10, 1958; interment in Wyuka Cemetery.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 77
Hometown: Lincoln

House
Howard H. Buffett
BUFFETT, Howard Homan, a Representative from Nebraska; born in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr., August 13, 1903; attended the public schools, and was graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1925; engaged in the investment business in 1926; member of the Omaha Board of Education 1939–1942; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943–January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected to the Eighty-second Congress (January 3, 1951–January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; resumed former business pursuits; was a resident of Omaha, Nebr., until his death there on April 30, 1964; interment in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 78 79
Hometown: Omaha

House
Arthur L. Miller
MILLER, Arthur Lewis, a Representative from Nebraska; born on a farm near Plainview, Pierce County, Nebr., May 24, 1892; attended the public schools; was graduated from the high school at Plainview, Nebr., in 1911 and from Loyola Medical School, Chicago, Ill., in 1918; taught in a rural school at Plainview, Nebr., 1911–1913; member of the United States Medical Reserve Corps 1917–1919; practiced medicine and surgery in Kimball, Nebr., 1919–1942 and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; mayor of Kimball in 1933 and 1934; member of the Nebraska legislature 1937–1941; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1940; State health director in 1941 and 1942; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943–January 3, 1959); chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; director, Office of Saline Water, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., from February 1959 to January 1961; died in Chevy Chase, Md., March 16, 1967; interment in Parklawn Cemetery, Rockville, Md.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 78 , 79
Hometown: Kimball

New Mexico

Senate
Carl A. Hatch
HATCH, Carl Atwood, a Senator from New Mexico; born in Kirwin, Phillip County, Kans., November 27, 1889; attended the public schools of Kansas and Oklahoma; graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1912; admitted to the bar the same year and began practice in Eldorado, Okla.; moved to Clovis, N.Mex., in 1916 and continued the practice of law; assistant attorney general of New Mexico 1917–1918; collector of internal revenue 1919–1922; district judge of the ninth judicial district of New Mexico 1923–1929; member, State board of bar examiners 1930–1933; appointed on October 10, 1933, as a Democrat to the United States, and subsequently elected on November 6, 1934, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sam G. Bratton; reelected in 1936 and again in 1942 and served from October 10, 1933, to January 2, 1949; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; best known as author of the 'Hatch Act' of 1939 and 1940, preventing federal employees from engaging in political activity; chairman, Committee on Privileges and Elections (Seventy-seventh Congress), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventy-seventh through Seventy-ninth Congresses); appointed United States district judge for the district of New Mexico 1949–1963; retired; died in Albuquerque, N.Mex., September 15, 1963; interment in Fairview Park Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Clovis

Senate
Dennis Chavez
CHAVEZ, Dennis, a Representative and a Senator from New Mexico; born in Los Chavez, Valencia County, N.Mex., April 8, 1888; attended the public schools; worked as a grocer's clerk as a boy and later in the engineering department of the city of Albuquerque; travelled to Washington in 1917 with Senator Andrieus A. Jones and served as clerk in the office of the Secretary of the United States Senate 1917–1920; graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1920; admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Albuquerque, N.Mex.; member, State house of representatives 1923–1924; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses (March 4, 1931–January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-third Congress); did not seek renomination in 1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator; appointed as a Democrat on May 11, 1935, and elected on November 3, 1936, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bronson M. Cutting; reelected in 1940, 1946, 1952, and again in 1958, and served from May 11, 1935, until his death in Washington, D.C., November 18, 1962; chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Seventy-ninth Congress), Committee on Public Works (Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses); interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Albuquerque, N.Mex.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Albuquerque

House
John J. Dempsey
DEMPSEY, John Joseph, a Representative from New Mexico; born in White Haven, Luzerne County, Pa., June 22, 1879; attended the grade schools; engaged as a telegrapher; held various positions with the Brooklyn Union Elevator Co.; vice president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. until 1919; entered the oil business in Oklahoma in 1919 and was vice president of the Continental Oil & Asphalt Co.; moved to Santa Fe, N.Mex., in 1920 and was an independent oil operator; in 1928 became president of the United States Asphalt Co.; in 1932 was appointed a member and later president of the Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico; State director for the National Recovery Administration in 1933, then became State director of the Federal Housing Administration and the National Emergency Council; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1941); was not a candidate for renomination in 1940, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for United States Senator; member of the United States Maritime Commission 1941; Under Secretary of the Interior from July 7, 1941, until his resignation on June 24, 1942; Governor of New Mexico from January 1, 1943, to January 1, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1946; elected to the Eighty-second and the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 11, 1958; interment in Rosario Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76
Hometown: Santa Fe
Representative at Large.

House
Clinton P. Anderson
ANDERSON, Clinton Presba, a Representative and a Senator from New Mexico; born in Centerville, Turner County, S.Dak., October 23, 1895; attended the public schools, Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.Dak., and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; moved to Albuquerque, N.Mex., in 1917; newspaper reporter and editor in Albuquerque 1918–1922; engaged in the general insurance business at Albuquerque 1922–1946; served as treasurer of State of New Mexico 1933–1934; administrator of the New Mexico Relief Administration 1935; field representative of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration 1935–1936; chairman and executive director of the Unemployment Compensation Commission of New Mexico 1936–1938; managing director of the United States Coronado Exposition Commission 1939–1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and to the two succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1941, until his resignation on June 30, 1945, having been appointed Secretary of Agriculture; served as Secretary of Agriculture from June 30, 1945, until his resignation May 10, 1948; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948; reelected in 1954, 1960 and 1966, and served from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1973; was not a candidate for reelection in 1972; chairman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (Eighty-fourth and Eighty-sixth Congresses), Joint Committee on Construction of Building for Smithsonian (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-eighth Congresses), Joint Committee on Navaho-Hopi Indian (Eighty-fourth through the Ninety-second Congresses), Special Committee on Preservation of Senate Records (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth Congresses), Special Committee on National Fuel Policy (Eighty-seventh Congress), Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Eighty-eighth through Ninety-second Congresses); returned to Albuquerque and retired from active pursuits; died November 11, 1975; interment in Fairview Memorial Park.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 77 78 79
Hometown: Albuquerque
Representative at Large. Resigned June 30, 1945; vacancy throughout remainder of the Congress.

House
Antonio M. Fernéndez
FERNÁNDEZ, Antonio Manuel, a Representative from New Mexico; born in Springer, Colfax County, N.Mex., January 17, 1902; attended the public schools, and Highlands University, Las Vegas, N.Mex.; received law training at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; court reporter for the eighth judicial district of New Mexico 1925–1930; was admitted to the bar in 1931 and commenced practice in Raton, Colfax County, N.Mex.; assistant district attorney of the eighth judicial district in 1933; practiced law in Santa Fe, N.Mex., in 1934; served in the State house of representatives in 1935; chief tax attorney for the State Tax Commission in 1935 and 1936; first assistant attorney general 1937–1941; member of the first New Mexico Public Service Commission in 1941 and 1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his death; chairman, Committee on Memorials (Seventy-ninth Congress); had been reelected on November 6, 1956, to the Eighty-fifth Congress; died in Albuquerque, N.Mex., November 7, 1956; interment in Rosario Catholic Cemetery, Santa Fe.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000085
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 78 79
Hometown: Santa Fe
Representative at Large.

North Dakota

Senate
Lynn J. Frazier
FRAZIER, Lynn Joseph, a Senator from North Dakota; born near Medford, Steele County, Minn., December 21, 1874; moved to Dakota Territory (now North Dakota) in 1881 with his parents, who homesteaded in Pembina County; attended the country schools; graduated from Mayville State Normal School, North Dakota, in 1895, and from the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1901; engaged in agricultural pursuits; Governor of North Dakota 1917–1921; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1922; reelected in 1928 and in 1934 and served from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1941; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1940; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses); resumed his agricultural pursuits; died January 11, 1947, in Riverdale, Md.; interment in Park Cemetery, Hoople, N.Dak.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000354
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76
Hometown: Hoople

Senate
Gerald P. Nye
NYE, Gerald Prentice, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Hortonville, Outagamie County, Wis., December 19, 1892; attended the public schools; engaged in newspaper work in Wisconsin and Iowa; moved to North Dakota in 1915; publisher of the Billings County Pioneer, and later editor and publisher of the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier; unsuccessful candidate in 1924 for election to the Sixty-ninth Congress; appointed on November 14, 1925, and subsequently elected on June 30, 1926, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edwin F. Ladd; reelected in 1926, 1932, and again in 1938 and served from November 14, 1925, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944; chairman, Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses), Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry (1934–1938); president of Records Engineering, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1937–1959; special assistant for elderly housing, Federal Housing Administration 1960–1964; member of staff, Senate Committee on Aging 1964–1968; lawyer in Washington, D.C., 1964–1971; was a resident of Chevy Chase, Md., until his death on July 17, 1971, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000176
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78
Hometown: Cooperstown

Senate
William Langer
LANGER, William, a Senator from North Dakota; born on a farm in Everest Township, near Casselton, Cass County, N.Dak., September 30, 1886; attended the rural schools; graduated from the law department of the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1906 and from Columbia University, New York City in 1910; admitted to the bar in 1911 and began practice in Mandan, N.Dak.; State's attorney of Morton County, N.Dak., 1914–1916; moved to Bismarck, N.Dak., in 1916 and continued the practice of law; attorney general of North Dakota 1916–1920; legal adviser for Council of Defense during the First World War; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1920; Governor of North Dakota January 1933 to July 1934, when he was removed by the State supreme court; again Governor 1937–1939; unsuccessful candidate for nomination for United States Senator in 1938; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1940; though there was an attempt to block his seating, Langer took his seat in the Senate in 1941; reelected in 1946, 1952, and again in 1958, and served from January 3, 1941, until his death in Washington, D.C., November 8, 1959; chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service (Eightieth Congress), Committee on the Judiciary (Eighty-third Congress); interment in St. Leo's Catholic Cemetery, Casselton, N.Dak.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000070
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 77 78 79
Hometown: Bismarck

Senate
John Moses
MOSES, John, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Strand, Norway, June 12, 1885; attended the public schools and graduated from Junior College, Oslo, Norway; immigrated to the United States in 1905 and settled in Benson, Swift County, Minn.; worked as a laborer, farm hand, clerk, and freight-claim investigator; secretary of the State Teachers College, Valley City, N.Dak., 1911–1913; graduated from the law school of the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1915; admitted to the bar in 1915 and practiced law in Hope and Hebron, N.Dak., before moving to Hazen, N.Dak., in 1917; also engaged in agricultural pursuits and banking; State's attorney of Mercer County, N.Dak., 1919–1923 and 1927–1933; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1936; elected Governor in 1938 and reelected in 1940 and 1942; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1944 and served from January 3, 1945, until his death on March 3, 1945, at Rochester, Minn., where he had gone for an operation; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery, Bismarck, N.Dak.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001029
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 79
Hometown: Hazen
Died March 3, 1945.

Senate
Milton R. Young
YOUNG, Milton Ruben, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Berlin, La Moure County, N.Dak., on December 6, 1897; attended the public schools of La Moure County; attended the North Dakota State Agricultural College at Fargo, and Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa; engaged in agricultural pursuits near Berlin, N.Dak.; elected to the North Dakota house of representatives in 1932; member, North Dakota senate 1934–1945; appointed on March 12, 1945, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Moses; subsequently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, by special election, on June 25, 1946, to complete the six-year term ending January 3, 1951; reelected in 1950, 1956, 1962, 1968 and 1974 and served from March 12, 1945, to January 3, 1981; was not a candidate for renomination in 1980; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Ninety-sixth Congress; resided in Sun City, Ariz., until his death on May 31, 1983; interment at Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, N.Dak.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Y000047
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 79
Hometown: Berlin
Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of John Moses, and took his seat March 19, 1945; subsequently elected.

House
Usher L. Burdick
BURDICK, Usher Lloyd, (father of Quentin N. Burdick, father-in-law of Jocelyn B. Burdick, and father-in-law of Robert W. Levering), a Representative from North Dakota; born in Owatonna, Steele County, Minn., February 21, 1879; moved with his parents to Dakota Territory in 1882; raised among the Sioux Indians; was graduated from the State normal school at Mayville, N.Dak., in 1900; deputy superintendent of schools of Benson County, N.Dak., 1900–1902; was graduated from the law department of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1904, teaching school in a business college while attending the university; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Munich, N.Dak.; member of the State house of representatives 1907–1911, serving as speaker in 1909; moved to Williston, N.Dak., in 1910 and continued the practice of law; Lieutenant Governor 1911–1913; State's attorney of Williams County 1913–1915; assistant United States district attorney for North Dakota 1929–1932; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to the Seventy-third Congress in 1932; also engaged in livestock breeding and farming; author; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1945); was not a candidate for renomination in 1944, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator; unsuccessful Independent candidate for election in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; elected to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949–January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; died in Washington, D.C., August 19, 1960; interment on his ranch at Williston, N.Dak.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001079
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78
Hometown: Williston

House
William Lemke
LEMKE, William, a Representative from North Dakota; born in Albany, Stearns County, Minn., August 13, 1878; attended the public schools; was graduated from the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1902 and Yale University in 1905; studied law at the University of North Dakota and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1905 and commenced practice at Fargo, N.Dak.; member of the national executive committee of the National Nonpartisan League 1917–1921; chairman of the Republican State committee 1916–1920; attorney general of North Dakota in 1921 and 1922; Union Party candidate for President in 1936; elected as a Nonpartisan on the Republican ticket to the Seventy-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933–January 3, 1941); renominated as a Republican in 1940; later withdrew and was an unsuccessful Independent candidate for election to the United States Senate; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his death in Fargo, N.Dak., May 30, 1950; interment in Riverside Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000238
Political party: Nonpartisan
Congresses served: 75 76 78 79
Hometown: Fargo

House
Charles R. Robertson
ROBERTSON, Charles Raymond, a Representative from North Dakota; born on a farm near Madison, Wis., on September 5, 1889; assisted his father on a grain and stock farm in Columbia County, Wis., while attending public schools at Arlington and Poynette, Wis.; was graduated from Parker College, Winnebago, Minn.; held executive positions in wholesale and retail department stores throughout Minnesota and the Dakotas; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1940; member of the Republican State executive committee; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941–January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; engaged in the retail business in Bismarck, N.Dak.; again elected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1945–January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948; resumed the merchandising business in Bismarck, N.Dak., and paint manufacturing in Washington, D.C.; in 1949 was named an advisory member of the Hoover Commission on the reorganization of the Government; died in Bismarck, N.Dak., February 18, 1951; interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000319
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 77 79
Hometown: Bismarck

Oklahoma

Senate
J.W. Elmer Thomas
THOMAS, John William Elmer, a Representative and a Senator from Oklahoma; born on a farm near Greencastle, Putnam County, Ind., September 8, 1876; attended the common schools; graduated from the Central Normal College (now Canterbury), Danville, Ind., in 1897 and from the graduate department of DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1900; studied law; admitted to the Indiana bar in 1897 and to the Oklahoma bar in 1900, and commenced practice in Oklahoma City, Okla.; moved to Lawton, Okla., in 1901 and continued the practice of law; member, State senate 1907–1920, serving as president pro tempore 1910–1913; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923–March 3, 1927); was not a candidate for renomination in 1926, having become a candidate for United States Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932, 1938 and 1944 and served from March 4, 1927, to January 3, 1951; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1950; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-fourth through Seventy-seventh Congresses), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth and Eighty-first Congresses), Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-eighth Congress); engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., until August 1957; returned to Lawton, Okla., where he died September 19, 1965; interment in Highland Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000177
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Medicine Park

Senate
Josh Lee
LEE, Joshua Bryan, a Representative and a Senator from Oklahoma; born in Childersburg, Talladega County, Ala., January 23, 1892; moved with his parents to Pauls Valley, Okla. (then Indian Territory), and then to Kiowa County, near Hobart in 1901; attended the public schools of Hobart and Rocky, Okla., and the Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee; teacher in the public schools of Rocky, Okla., 1911–1913; coach of athletics and teacher of public speaking at the Oklahoma Baptist University 1913–1915; graduated from the University of Oklahoma at Norman 1917; received a graduate degree in political science from Columbia University in 1924, and a law degree from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1925; during the First World War served overseas as a private in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, Thirty-fourth Division 1917–1918; head of the public speaking department of the University of Oklahoma 1919–1934; author and lecturer; owned and operated a ranch in western Oklahoma and a farm near Norman, Okla.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for renomination in 1936; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from January 3, 1937, to January 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942; member of the Civil Aeronautics Board 1943–1955; returned to Norman, Okla., and practiced law; died in Norman, Okla., August 10, 1967; interment in I. O. O. F. Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000198
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Norman

House
Will Rogers
ROGERS, Will, a Representative from Oklahoma; born on a farm near Bessie, Washita County, Oklahoma Territory (now Oklahoma), December 12, 1898; attended the public schools, and Southwestern Teachers College, Weatherford, Okla.; Central Teachers College, Edmond, Okla., B.S., 1926 and A.B., 1929; and from the University of Oklahoma at Norman, M.S., 1930; teacher in the public schools at Bessie, Okla., 1917–1919; principal of the public schools at Bartlesville, Okla., 1919–1923; superintendent of schools in several Oklahoma school districts, 1923–1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933–January 3, 1943); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-fourth through Seventy-seventh Congresses); while serving as a Representative at large was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1941 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sam C. Massingale in the Seventh District for the Seventy-seventh Congress; was not a candidate for renomination in 1942; admitted to Oklahoma bar in 1942; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination of secretary of state of Oklahoma in 1943; employed by the Department of the Interior 1943–1945; assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., in 1946 and 1947; hearing examiner, Department of Agriculture, May 1947 until retirement in 1968; engaged in building and real estate management; was a resident of McLean, Va. until his death August 3, 1983 in Falls Church, Va.; cremated, ashes interred at National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Va.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000405
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: Oklahoma City
Representative at Large.

House
Jed Johnson
JOHNSON, Jed Joseph, (father of Jed Joseph Johnson, Jr.), a Representative from Oklahoma; born on a farm near Waxahachie, Ellis County, Tex., July 31, 1888; attended the public schools in Texas and Oklahoma; was graduated from the law department of the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 1915, and postgraduate work at l'Université de Clermont at Clermont-Ferrand, France; was admitted to the bar in 1918 and commenced practice at Walters, Okla.; served overseas as a private in Company L of the Thirty-sixth Division in 1918 and 1919; editor of a newspaper in Cotton County, Okla., 1920–1922; member of the State senate 1920–1927; delegate to the annual peace conference of the Interparliamentary Union at Paris, France, in 1927 and 1937, and at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929; chairman of the speakers' bureau, Democratic National Congressional Committee; elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1927–January 3, 1947); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the United States Customs Court in 1945, which position he declined; was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to the United States Customs Court in 1947 and served until his death in a New York City Hospital May 8, 1963; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Chickasha, Okla.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Anadarko

House
Sam C. Massingale
MASSINGALE, Samuel Chapman, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Quitman, Clarke County, Miss., August 2, 1870; attended the public schools and the University of Mississippi at Oxford; moved to Fort Worth, Tex., in 1887 and was employed for a short time as a section hand; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Cordell, Washita County, Okla., in 1900; during the Spanish-American War served as a private in Company D, Second Texas Infantry; member of the Oklahoma Territorial Council in 1902; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1935, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 17, 1941; interment in Lawnview Cemetery, Cordell, Okla.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000231
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: Cordell
Died January 17, 1941.

House
Victor Wickersham
WICKERSHAM, Victor Eugene, a Representative from Oklahoma; born on a farm near Lone Rock, Baxter County, Ark., February 9, 1906; moved to Mangum, Greer County, Okla., with his parents in 1915; educated in the public schools of Oklahoma; employed in the office of the county clerk of Greer County, Okla., 1924–1926; court clerk of Greer County 1926–1935; served as chief clerk of the board of affairs of the State of Oklahoma in 1935 and 1936; engaged as a building contractor in Oklahoma City in 1937 and 1938 and in the life insurance business 1938–1941; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sam C. Massingale; reelected to the Seventy-eight and Seventy-ninth Congresses and served from April 1, 1941, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; elected to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949–January 3, 1957); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1956 and for the Democratic nomination in 1958; elected to the Eighty-seventh and to the Eighty-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1961–January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; real estate, insurance, and investment broker; member, Oklahoma State legislature, January 3, 1971–January 3, 1979, and again from February 9, 1988, until his death in Oklahoma City, Okla., on March 15, 1988; was a resident of Mangum, Okla.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000439
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 77 78 79
Hometown: Mangum
Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Sam C. Massingale, and took his seat April 14, 1941.

House
Ferguson, Phil
FERGUSON, Phillip Colgan, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Wellington, Sumner County, Kans., August 15, 1903; attended the public schools; was graduated from the University of Kansas at Lawrence, A.B., 1926; moved to Oklahoma and settled on a ranch near Woodward, Woodward County, in 1926; engaged in agricultural pursuits and cattle raising; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress and for election in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; resumed his former pursuits; commissioned a major in the United States Marine Corps in the Second World War and served from March 2, 1942, to August 1, 1944; received the Silver Star Medal; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Oklahoma in 1958; engaged in cattle ranching; was director of the Bank of Woodward and cattleman; resided in Woodward, Okla., until his death in Tiajuana, Mex., August 8, 1978; cremated; ashes scattered on the Pacific Ocean at San Diego, Calif.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000082
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76
Hometown: Woodward

House
Ross Rizley
RIZLEY, Ross, a Representative from Oklahoma; born on a farm near Beaver, Okla., July 5, 1892; attended the public schools; taught in the rural schools of Beaver County, Okla., in 1909 and 1910; served as a deputy register of deeds of Beaver County, Okla., in 1911 and 1912; was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo., in 1915; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Beaver, Okla.; elected county attorney of Beaver County in 1918 and served until 1920, when he resigned and moved to Guymon, Texas County, Okla., and resumed the practice of law; member of the Guymon Board of Education 1924–1932; city attorney of Guymon 1928–1938; member of the State senate 1931–1934; unsuccessful candidate for election as Governor of Oklahoma in 1938; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941–January 3, 1949); chairman, Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures (Eightieth Congress); delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1932, 1936, and 1948; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948 but was unsuccessful for election to the United States Senate; solicitor for the Post Office Department, Washington, D.C., from March to December 1953; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture from December 1953 until his resignation December 16, 1954; member of the Civil Aeronautics Board from February 25, 1955, until April 15, 1956, when he resigned; judge of the United States District Court for the western district of Oklahoma from 1956 until his death in Oklahoma City, Okla., March 4, 1969; interment in Elmhurst Cemetery, Guymon, Okla.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000288
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 77 78 79
Hometown: Guymon

South Dakota

Senate
William J. Bulow
BULOW, William John, a Senator from South Dakota; born on a farm near Moscow, Clermont County, Ohio, January 13, 1869; attended the public schools in Moscow, Ohio, and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1893; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Beresford, Union County, S.Dak., in 1894; member, State senate 1899; served as city attorney of Beresford, S.Dak., 1902–1912 and 1913–1927; mayor of Beresford 1912–1913; county judge of Union County, S.Dak., 1918; Governor of South Dakota 1927–1931; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; chairman, Committee on the Civil Service (Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses); retired and resided in Washington, D.C., until his death there on February 26, 1960; interment in St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Beresford, S.Dak.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001055
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: Beresford

Senate
Herbert E. Hitchcock
HITCHCOCK, Herbert Emery, a Senator from South Dakota; born in Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, August 22, 1867; attended public schools in Iowa and San Jose, Calif., a business college at Davenport, Iowa, Iowa State College at Ames, and the University of Chicago Law School; moved to Mitchell, S.Dak, in 1884, attended school and worked as a stenographer; admitted to the South Dakota bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Mitchell; also engaged in banking; clerk of the State senate 1896; elected as a State's attorney 1904 and 1906; elected to the State senate in 1909, 1911, and 1929; a trustee of Yankton (S.Dak.) College in 1936; president of Mitchell school board 1924–1934; appointed on December 29, 1936, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Peter Norbeck and served from December 29, 1936, to November 8, 1938, when a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for the nomination to fill the vacancy in 1938; resumed the practice of law until his death in Mitchell, S.Dak., February 17, 1958; interment in Graceland Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000646
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Mitchell
Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Peter Norbeck in preceding Congress.

Senate
Gladys Pyle
PYLE, Gladys, a Senator from South Dakota; born in Huron, Beadle County, S.Dak., October 4, 1890; attended the public schools; graduated from Huron (S.Dak.) College in 1911; taught in the public high schools at Miller, Wessington, and Huron, S.Dak., 1912–1918; first woman member of the State house of representatives 1923–1927; served as secretary of State of South Dakota 1927–1931; unsuccessful candidate for Republican nomination for governor 1930; member of the State securities commission 1931–1933; engaged in the life insurance business; elected on November 8, 1938, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Peter Norbeck and served from November 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939; was not a candidate for election in 1938 to the full term; resumed the life insurance business and also engaged in farm management; member of the South Dakota Board of Charities and Corrections 1943–1957; agent for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. 1950–1986; died in Huron, S.Dak., March 14, 1989; cremated, ashes interred in Riverside Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000581
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Huron
Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Peter Norbeck, in preceding Congress, and served from November 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was not in session.

Senate
J. Chandler Gurney
GURNEY, John Chandler (Chan), a Senator from South Dakota; born in Yankton, S.Dak., May 21, 1896; attended the public schools; during the First World War served as a sergeant in Company A, Thirty-Fourth Engineers, United States Army, with service overseas 1918–1919; engaged in the seed and nursery business 1914–1926; operator of a radio station at Yankton, S.Dak., 1926–1932; moved to Sioux Falls, S.Dak., and engaged in the wholesale gasoline and oil business 1932–1936; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1936; elected as a Republican in 1938 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1944 and served from January 3, 1939, to January 3, 1951; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1950; chairman, Committee on Armed Services (Eightieth Congress); appointed a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1951, became chairman in 1954, reappointed in 1958, and served until 1964; retired to Yankton, S.Dak., where he died, March 9, 1985; interment in Yankton Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000532
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Yankton

Senate
Harlan J. Bushfield
BUSHFIELD, Harlan John, (husband of Vera C. Bushfield), a Senator from South Dakota; born in Atlantic, Cass County, Iowa, August 6, 1882; moved with his parents to South Dakota in 1883; attended the public schools in Miller, S.Dak., and Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.Dak. 1899–1901; graduated from the Minnesota University Law School at Minneapolis in 1904; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Miller, S.Dak.; Governor of South Dakota 1939–1942; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1942 and served from January 3, 1943, until his death in Miller, S.Dak., September 27, 1948; interment in the G.A.R. Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001168
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 78 79
Hometown: Miller

House
Francis H. Case
CASE, Francis Higbee, a Representative and a Senator from South Dakota; born in Everly, Clay County, Iowa, December 9, 1896; moved with his parents to Sturgis, S.Dak., in 1909; attended the public schools; graduated from Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.Dak., in 1918, and from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in 1920; during the First World War served as a private in the United States Marine Corps in 1918; served in both the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps Reserves; assistant editor, Epworth Herald, Chicago, Ill., 1920–1922; telegraph editor and editorial writer on the Rapid City (S.Dak.) Daily Journal 1922–1925; editor and publisher of the Hot Springs (S.Dak.) Star 1925–1931; editor and publisher of the Custer (S.Dak.) Chronicle 1931–1946; member of the State regents of education 1931–1933; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937–January 3, 1951); elected to the United States Senate in 1950; reelected in 1956 and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., June 22, 1962; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eighty-third Congress); interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Rapid City, S.Dak.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000221
Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Custer

Texas

Senate
Morris Sheppard
SHEPPARD, Morris, (son of John Levi Sheppard, grandfather of Connie Mack III), a Representative and a Senator from Texas; born in Wheatville, Morris County, Tex., May 28, 1875; attended the common schools of various Texas towns; graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1895, from the law department of the same university in 1897, and from the law department of Yale University in 1898; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Pittsburg, Camp County, Tex., in 1898; moved to Texarkana in 1899 and continued the practice of his profession; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, John L. Sheppard; reelected to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from November 15, 1902, to February 3, 1913, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-second Congress); elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on January 29, 1913, to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1913, caused by the resignation of Joseph W. Bailey, and on the same day was also elected for the term commencing March 4, 1913; reelected in 1918, 1924, 1930 and 1936; took the oath of office on February 3, 1913, and served until his death; Democratic whip 1929–1933; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses), Committee on the Census (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., April 9, 1941; interment in Hillcrest Cemetery, Texarkana, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000337
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: Texarkana
Died April 9, 1941

Senate
Tom T. Connally
CONNALLY, Thomas Terry (Tom), (step-grandfather of Connie Mack III), a Representative and a Senator from Texas; born near Hewitt, McLennan County, Tex., August 19, 1877; attended the public schools; graduated from Baylor University, Waco, Tex., in 1896 and from the law department of the University of Texas at Austin in 1898; admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice in Waco, Tex.; moved to Marlin, Falls County, Tex., in 1899 and continued the practice of law; served as sergeant major in the Second Regiment, Texas Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War; member, State house of representatives 1901–1904; prosecuting attorney of Falls County, Tex. 1906–1910; during the First World War became captain and adjutant of the Twenty-second Infantry Brigade, Eleventh Division, United States Army 1918; permanent chairman of Texas Democratic State convention in 1938; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917, until March 3, 1929); did not seek renomination in 1928, having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1928; reelected in 1934, 1940, and again in 1946, and served from March 4, 1929, to January 3, 1953, was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Seventy-seventh through Seventy-ninth and Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses); member and vice chairman of the United States delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco in 1945; representative of the United States to the first session of the General Assembly of the United Nations at London and to the second session at New York in 1946; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., where he died on October 28, 1963; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000684
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Marlin

Senate
Andrew Jackson Houston
HOUSTON, Andrew Jackson, (son of Samuel Houston), a Senator from Texas; born in Independence, Washington County, Tex., June 21, 1854; attended the common schools, Baylor University, Waco, Tex., Bastrop (Tex.) Military Academy, Texas Military Institute at Austin, Old Salado (Tex.) College, and the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.; clerk in the State school department 1873–1875 and in the General Land Office, Washington, D.C., in 1875; one of the organizers of the Travis Rifles at Austin during the reconstruction period in 1874; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1876 and practiced in Tyler, and later in Dallas and Beaumont, Tex.; clerk of the United States district court at Dallas, Tex., 1879–1889; served in the Texas National Guard 1884–1893 with the rank of colonel; during the Spanish-American War formed a troop of Cavalry for the Rough Riders of Theodore Roosevelt but was not a member; appointed United States marshal for the eastern district of Texas 1902–1910; unsuccessful Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of Texas in 1910 and 1912; retired from active business pursuits in 1918, lived near La Porte, Tex., and studied and wrote history; appointed superintendent of the State park at the San Jacinto battleground 1924–1941; appointed on April 21, 1941, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1943, caused by the death of Morris Sheppard and served from April 21, 1941, until his death; at the time of his swearing in, was the oldest man, at eighty-seven, ever to enter the Senate; died in a hospital in Baltimore, Md., June 26, 1941; interment in the State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000821
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 77
Hometown: La Porte
Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Morris Sheppard, and took his seat June 2, 1941; died June 26, 1941, while serving as an appointee.

Senate
W. Lee O'Daniel
O'DANIEL, Wilbert Lee (Pappy), a Senator from Texas; born in Malta, Morgan County, Ohio, March 11, 1890; reared on a cattle ranch near Arlington, Kans.; attended the public schools and business college in Hutchinson, Kans.; engaged in the flour milling and merchandising business, Fort Worth, Tex., 1909–1938; radio personality; elected Governor of Texas in 1938, reelected in 1940, and served until August 3, 1941, when he resigned, having been elected to the Senate; elected on June 28, 1941, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Morris Sheppard; reelected in 1942 and served from August 4, 1941, until January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; unsuccessful candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in 1956; owned and operated several life insurance companies in Texas; died in Dallas, Tex., May 11, 1969; interment in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000034
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 77 78 79
Hometown: Fort Worth

House
Wright Patman
PATMAN, John William Wright, (father of William Neff Patman), a Representative from Texas; born at Patman's Switch near Hughes Springs, Cass County, Tex., August 6, 1893; attended the public schools; was graduated from Hughes Springs (Tex.) High School in 1912 and from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1916; engaged in agricultural pursuits in Texas in 1913 and 1914; was admitted to the bar in 1916 and commenced practice in Hughes Springs, Tex.; assistant county attorney of Cass County, Tex., in 1916 and 1917; during the First World War served as a private and later as a machinegun officer in the United States Army 1917–1919; member of the State house of representatives 1921–1924; district attorney of the fifth judicial district of Texas 1924–1929; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first Congress; reelected to the twenty-three succeeding Congresses, and served from March 4, 1929, until his death March 7, 1976, in Bethesda, Md.; chairman, Select Committee on Small Business (Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses), Joint Economic Committee (Eighty-fifth, Eighty-seventh, Eighty-ninth, Ninety-first and Ninety-third Congresses), Joint Committee on Defense Production (Eighty-eighth, Ninetieth, Ninety-second, and Ninety-fourth Congresses), Committee on Banking and Currency (Eighty-eighth through Ninety-third Congresses); interment in Hillcrest Cemetery, Texarkana, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000103
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Texarkana

House
Morgan G. Sanders
SANDERS, Morgan Gurley, a Representative from Texas; born near Ben Wheeler, Van Zandt County, Tex., on July 14, 1878; attended the public schools; graduated from Alamo Institute and taught school for three years; owned and published a weekly newspaper; studied law at the University of Texas at Austin; was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in Canton, Tex.; member of the State house of representatives 1902–1906; prosecuting attorney of Van Zandt County 1910–1914; district attorney of the seventh judicial district of Texas in 1915 and 1916; voluntarily retired and resumed the practice of law in Canton, Van Zandt County, Tex.; delegate to many Democratic State conventions; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921–January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938; resumed the practice of law in Canton, Tex., until his death; died in Corsicana, Tex., January 7, 1956; interment in Hillcrest Cemetery, Canton, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000037
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Canton

House
Lindley Beckworth
BECKWORTH, Lindley Garrison, Sr., a Representative from Texas; born on a farm in the South Bouie community near Mabank, Kaufman County, Tex., June 30, 1913; attended the rural schools, Abilene Christian College, East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, Tex., Sam Houston State Teachers College, Huntsville, Tex., and Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex.; taught school in Upshur County, Tex., for three years; attended the law department of Baylor University, Waco, Tex., and the University of Texas at Austin; was admitted to the bar in 1937 and commenced practice in Gilmer, Tex.; member of the State house of representatives 1936–1938; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939–January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for renomination in 1952, but was unsuccessful for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator; resumed the practice of law in Longview, Tex.; elected to the Eighty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957–January 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1966; judge, United States Custom Court, New York City, 1967–1968; resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Upshur County, Gladewater, Tex. until his death at Tyler, March 9, 1984; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000296
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Gilmer

House
Sam Rayburn
RAYBURN, Samuel Taliaferro, a Representative from Texas; born near Kingston, Roane County, Tenn., January 6, 1882; moved to Fannin County, Tex., in 1887 with his parents who settled near Windom; attended the rural schools and was graduated from the East Texas Normal College, Commerce, Tex., in 1903; studied law at the University of Texas at Austin; was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Bonham, Fannin County, Tex.; member of the State house of representatives 1907–1913, and served as speaker during the last two years; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the twenty-four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death; chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and Seventy-fourth Congresses); majority leader (Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Congresses), minority leader (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses); elected Speaker of the House of Representatives September 16, 1940, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Speaker William B. Bankhead; reelected Speaker in the Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, Eighty-sixth, and Eighty-seventh Congresses; died in Bonham, Tex., November 16, 1961; interment in Willow Wild Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000082
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Bonham

House
Hatton W. Sumners
SUMNERS, Hatton William, a Representative from Texas; born near Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., May 30, 1875; moved to Garland, Dallas County, Tex., in 1893; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Dallas, Tex.; elected prosecuting attorney of Dallas County in 1900 and served two terms; president of the district and county attorney's association of Texas in 1906 and 1907; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913–January 3, 1947); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1926 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against George W. English, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1933 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Harold Louderback, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1936 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Halsted L. Ritter, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Seventy-second through Seventy-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; retired from public activities; was a resident of Dallas, Tex., until his death there April 19, 1962; interment in Knights of Pythias Cemetery, Garland, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001072
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Dallas

House
Luther A. Johnson
JOHNSON, Luther Alexander, a Representative from Texas; born in Corsicana, Navarro County, Tex., October 29, 1875; attended the public schools and was graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1896; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Corsicana, Tex.; prosecuting attorney of Navarro County 1898–1902; district attorney of the thirteenth judicial district of Texas 1904–1910; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1916; chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his resignation on July 17, 1946; judge of the Tax Court of the United States from July 1946 until his retirement in September 1956; was a resident of Corsicana, Tex., until his death there on June 6, 1965; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000159
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Corsicana

House
William R. Poage
POAGE, William Robert, a Representative from Texas; born in Waco, McLennan County, Tex., December 28, 1899; in 1901 moved to Throckmorton County, Tex., with his parents, who settled near Woodson; attended the rural schools of Throckmorton County, Tex.; during the First World War served as an apprentice seaman in the United States Navy; attended the University of Texas in Austin and the University of Colorado at Boulder; Baylor University, Waco, Tex., A.B., 1921; engaged in agricultural pursuits 1920–1922; instructor in geology at Baylor University 1922–1924; law department of Baylor University, LL.B., 1924; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Waco, Tex.; instructor in law at Baylor University 1924–1928; member of the State house of representatives 1925–1929; served in the State senate 1931–1937; delegate, Texas State Democratic convention, 1922; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1960, and 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress; reelected to the twenty succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1937, until his resignation December 31, 1978; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Ninetieth through Ninety-third Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident of Waco, Tex., until his death in Temple, Tex., on January 3, 1987; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000398
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Waco

House
James P. Buchanan
BUCHANAN, James Paul, (cousin of Edward William Pou), a Representative from Texas; born in Midway, Orangeburg County, S.C., April 30, 1867; moved to Texas in 1867 with his parents, who settled near Chapel Hill, Washington County; attended the district school; graduated from the law department of the University of Texas, Austin, Tex.,1889; admitted to the bar; lawyer, private practice; justice of the peace of Washington County, Tex., 1889–1892; prosecuting attorney, 1892–1899; district attorney for the twenty-first judicial district of Texas, 1899–1906; member of the Texas state house of representatives, 1906–1913; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Albert Sidney Burleson; reelected to the Sixty-fourth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (April 15, 1913–February 22, 1937); chair, Committee on Appropriations (Seventy-third through Seventy-fifth Congresses); died on February 22, 1937, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Prairie Lea Cemetery, Brenham, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001006
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Brenham

House
Lyndon B. Johnson
JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines, (father-in-law of Charles Spittal Robb), a Representative and a Senator from Texas and a Vice President and 36th President of the United States; born on a farm near Stonewall, Gillespie County, Tex., on August 27, 1908; moved with his parents to Johnson City, in 1913; attended the public schools of Blanco County, Tex.; graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College at San Marcos in 1930; taught high school 1928–1931; served as secretary to Congressman Richard M. Kleberg in Washington, D.C., 1931–1935; attended the Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., 1934; State director of the National Youth Administration of Texas 1935–1937; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress by special election, April 10, 1937, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James P. Buchanan; reelected to the five succeeding Congresses and served from April 10, 1937, to January 3, 1949; first Member of Congress to enlist in the armed forces after the Second World War began; served as lieutenant commander in the United States Navy 1941–1942; was not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-first Congress in 1948; elected to the United States Senate in 1948 for the term commencing January 3, 1949; reelected in 1954 and again in 1960 for the term ending January 3, 1967; Democratic whip 1951–1953; minority leader 1953–1955; majority leader 1955–1961; chairman, Special Committee on the Senate Reception Room (Eighty-fourth Congress), Special Committee on Astronautics and Space (Eighty-fifth Congress), Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses); elected Vice President of the United States in November 1960, on the Democratic ticket with John F. Kennedy, for the term beginning January 20, 1961; resigned from the United States Senate January 3, 1961; on the death of President Kennedy was sworn in as President of the United States on November 22, 1963; elected President of the United States in 1964, for the term commencing January 20, 1965, and served until January 20, 1969; did not seek reelection in 1968; retired to his ranch near Johnson City, Tex.; died on January 22, 1973; lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda, January 24–25, 1973; interment in the family cemetery at the LBJ ranch; posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on June 9, 1980.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000160
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Johnson City

House
Fritz G. Lanham
LANHAM, Fritz Garland, (son of Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham), a Representative from Texas; born in Weatherford, Tex., January 3, 1880; attended the public schools of Washington, D.C., and was graduated from Weatherford College, Weatherford, Tex., in 1897; attended Vanderbilt University in 1897 and 1898, and was graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1900, subsequently taking a law course in the same institution; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Weatherford, Tex.; moved to Fort Worth, Tex., in 1917; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James C. Wilson; reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from April 19, 1919, to January 3, 1947; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Seventy-second through Seventy-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; engaged as an adviser on legislation in Washington, D.C., until 1961; moved to Austin, Tex., where he died July 31, 1965; interment in City Greenwood Cemetery, Weatherford, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000076
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Fort Worth

House
William D. McFarlane
McFARLANE, William Doddridge, a Representative from Texas; born in Greenwood, Sebastian County, Ark., July 17, 1894; attended the public schools and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1909–1914; engaged in the mercantile business in Greenwood, Ark., 1914–1918; during the First World War was commissioned a second lieutenant in August 1918, and served until honorably discharged on December 13, 1918; returned to the University of Arkansas in 1919 and received his B.A. that year; Kent Law School, Chicago, Ill., LL.B., 1921, and J.D., 1969; was admitted to the bar in 1921 and commenced practice in Graham, Young County, Tex.; member of the State house of representatives, 1923–1927; served in the State senate, 1927–1931; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933–January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; special assistant to the attorney general at Texarkana, Tex., 1941–1944; director of the Surplus Property Smaller War Plants Corporation, Washington, D.C., from December 1944 to January 1946; special assistant to the Attorney General in Washington, D.C., January 1946 to July 1, 1951; unsuccessful candidate in 1951 to fill the vacancy in the Eighty-second Congress; with Lands Division, Justice Department, December 1, 1951, serving until retirement August 1, 1966; resumed the practice of law; resided in Graham, Tex., where he died February 18, 1980; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000440
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Graham

House
Clyde L. Garrett
GARRETT, Clyde Leonard, a Representative from Texas; born on a farm near Gorman, Eastland County, Tex., December 16, 1885; attended the public schools and Hankins' Normal College in his native city; raised on a farm; worked as a railroad section hand; taught school at Sweetwater, Nolan County, Tex., in 1906 and 1907; deputy in the office of the tax collector 1907–1912; county clerk of Eastland County, Tex., 1913–1919; engaged in the real estate, insurance, and banking businesses 1920–1922; city manager of the city of Eastland, Tex., in 1922 and 1923; county judge 1929–1936; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1937–January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1940; administrative officer in the office of the Secretary of Commerce from January 15, 1941, to May 1, 1942, at which time he became staff specialist in the Office of War Information and served until October 15, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination to the Seventy-ninth Congress in 1944; technical assistant, Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C., and Dallas, Tex., 1949–1950; manager, Veterans Administration regional office, Waco, Tex., 1951–1956; was an unsuccessful candidate for Eastland County judgeship in 1958; died in Eastland, Tex., December 18, 1959; interment in Eastland Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000080
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76
Hometown: Eastland

House
Marvin Jones
JONES, John Marvin, a Representative from Texas; born near Valley View, Cooke County, Tex., February 26, 1886; attended the common schools; John B. Denton College, A.B., 1902; Southwestern University, Georgetown, Tex., B.S., 1905; the law department of the University of Texas at Austin, LL.B., 1907; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Amarillo, Tex.; appointed a member of the board of legal examiners for the seventh supreme judicial district of Texas in 1913; members of the Democratic National Congressional Campaign Committee; served during the First World War as a private in Company A, Three Hundred and Eighth Battalion of the Tank Corps, in 1918; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress; reelected to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1917, until his resignation on November 20, 1940, to become a judge of the United States Court of Claims, having been appointed to that office by President Franklin D. Roosevelt; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Seventy-second through Seventy-sixth Congresses); on leave from the Court of Claims beginning January 15, 1943, served as adviser and assistant to the Director of Economic Stabilization until June 29, 1943, when he was appointed Administrator of the United States War Food Administration and served until July 1, 1945, when he resumed his duties as judge of the United States Court of Claims, serving as chief judge from July 10, 1947, until his retirement July 14, 1964; special master, United States Supreme Court for Mississippi and Louisiana, 1965; accepted appointment as a senior judge after his retirement and remained active until his death in Amarillo, Tex., March 4, 1976; interment in Llano Cemetery.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000236
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76
Hometown: Amarillo
Resigned November 20, 1940, having been appointed judge of the United States Court of Claims; vacancy throughout remainder of the Congress.

House
Maury Maverick
MAVERICK, Fontaine Maury, (cousin of Abram P. Maury, nephew of James L. Slayden, and cousin of John W. Fishburne), a Representative from Texas; born in San Antonio, Tex., October 23, 1895; attended the common schools of Texas, Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, and the University of Texas at Austin; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1916 and commenced practice in San Antonio, Tex.; during the First World War served as a first lieutenant in the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Infantry, Fortieth Division, and was overseas with the Twenty-eighth Infantry, First Division; awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart; engaged in the lumber, building-material, housing, and mortgage businesses 1925–1930; collector of taxes of Bexar County, Tex., 1929–1931; delegate to several Democratic State conventions and to the Democratic National Conventions in 1928 and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938; mayor of San Antonio 1939–1941; divisional director and later vice chairman of the War Production Board and chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, Washington, D.C., 1941–1946; resumed the practice of law; died in San Antonio, Tex., June 7, 1954; interment in San Jose Burial Park, San Antonio, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000263
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: San Antonio

House
George H. Mahon
MAHON, George Herman, a Representative from Texas; born in the village of Mahon, near Haynesville, Claiborne Parish, La., September 22, 1900; moved to Texas in 1908 with his family, who settled on a farm near Loraine, Mitchell County; attended the public schools; was graduated from the high school at Loraine, Tex., in 1918; Simmons University, Abilene, Tex., B.A., 1924, and from the law department of the University of Texas at Austin, LL.B., 1925; also attended the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis; was admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice in Colorado (now Colorado City), Tex.; elected county attorney of Mitchell County, Tex., in 1926; district attorney of the thirty-second judicial district of Texas, 1927–1933; delegate to each Democratic National Convention 1936–1964; regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 1964–1978; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the twenty-one succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1979); chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Eighty-eighth through Ninety-fifth Congresses), Joint Committee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures (Ninetieth through Ninety-third Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident of Colorado City, Tex., until his death on November 19, 1985, in San Angelo, Tex.; interment in Loraine City Cemetery, Loraine, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000065
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Colorado City

House
Charles L. South
SOUTH, Charles Lacy, a Representative from Texas; born on a farm near Damascus, Washington County, Va., July 22, 1892; moved with his parents to Callahan County, Tex., in 1898 and to Coleman County, Tex., in 1914; attended the public schools and Simmons University at Abilene, Tex., in 1915 and 1916; taught in the Coleman County, Tex., public schools 1914–1920; served as superintendent of schools of Coleman County 1921–1925; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1925; served as county judge 1925–1931 and as district attorney for the thirty-fifth judicial district 1930–1934; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in the first primary in 1942 and later withdrew; engaged in the practice of law in Coleman, Tex.; member of the State house of representatives in 1947 and 1948; was a resident of Austin, Tex., from 1948 until his death there on December 20, 1965; interment in Coleman Cemetery, Coleman, Tex.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000683
Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: Coleman

House
Ed Gossett
GOSSETT, Ed Lee, a Representative from Texas; born in a sawmill camp known as Yellow Pine, near Many, Sabine Parish, La., January 27, 1902; moved to Texas in 1908 with his parents, who settled on a farm near Henrietta, Clay County; attended the rural schools of Clay and Garza Counties, Tex.; University of Texas at Austin, A.B., 1924 and the law school of the same university, LL.B., 1927; was admitted to the bar the latter year and commenced practice in Vernon, Tex.; moved to Wichita Falls, Tex., in 1937 and continued the practice of law; served as district attorney of the forty-sixth judicial district 1933–1937; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his resignation July 31, 1951; chairman, Committee on Elections No. 2 (Seventy-seventh through Seventy-ninth Congresses); resumed the practice of law and was general attorney for the Texas Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.; served as judge of Criminal District Court, Dallas, Tex., until his death on November 6, 1990.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Wichita Falls

House
Paul L. Kilday
KILDAY, Paul Joseph, a Representative from Texas; born in Sabinal, Uvalde County, Tex., March 29, 1900; moved with his parents to San Antonio, Tex., in 1904; attended the public and parochial schools and St. Mary's College, San Antonio, Tex.; employed as a clerk, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C., 1918–1921 and as a law clerk, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, in 1921 and 1922; was graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1922; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in San Antonio, Tex.; served as first assistant district attorney of Bexar County, Tex., 1935–1938; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his resignation September 24, 1961, having been appointed a judge of the Court of Military Appeals and served in this capacity until his death in Washington, D.C., October 12, 1968; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 76 77 78 79
Hometown: San Antonio

House
Sam M. Russell
RUSSELL, Sam Morris, a Representative from Texas; born on a farm near Stephenville, Erath County, Tex., August 9, 1889; attended the rural schools and the John Tarleton College, Stephenville, Tex.; taught school in Erath County, Tex., 1913–1918; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; during the First World War served as a private in the Forty-sixth Machine Gun Company, United States Army, in 1918 and 1919; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced practice in Stephenville, Tex.; served as county attorney of Erath County, Tex., 1919–1924; district attorney of the twenty-ninth judicial district 1924–1928; served as judge of the twenty-ninth judicial district 1928–1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941–January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; resumed the practice of law, Democratic county chairman, 1953–1955; resided in Stephenville, Tex., until his death there October 19, 1971; interment in East Memorial Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 77 78 79
Hometown: Stephenville

House
Eugene Worley
WORLEY, Francis Eugene, a Representative from Texas; born at Lone Wolf, Kiowa County, Okla., October 10, 1908; moved to Shamrock, Tex., in 1922; attended the public schools, the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College at College Station in 1927 and 1928, and the law school of the University of Texas at Austin 1930–1935; was admitted to the bar in 1935 and commenced practice in Shamrock, Tex.; member of the State house of representatives from 1935 to 1940, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy from December 1941 to August 1942, while a Member of Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress; reelected to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1941, until his resignation April 3, 1950; chairman, Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives (Seventy-eighth Congress); appointed an associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Washington, D.C., and served from April 4, 1950, to May 4, 1959; appointed chief judge May 4, 1959; resided in Arlington, Va., until his death in Naples, Fla., December 17, 1974; cremated; ashes interred at Columbia Gardens, Arlington, Va.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 77 78 79
Hometown: Shamrock

House
O. Clark Fisher
FISHER, Ovie Clark, a Representative from Texas; born near Junction, Kimble County, Tex., November 22, 1903; attended the public schools at Junction, Tex., the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Texas at Austin; LL.B, J.D., Baylor University Law School, Waco, Tex., 1929; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in San Angelo, Tex.; engaged in ranching business; author; county attorney of Tom Green County, Tex., 1931–1935; member of the State house of representatives 1935–1937; district attorney, fifty-first judicial district, 1937–1943; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his resignation December 31, 1974; chairman, Committee on Elections No. 3 (Seventy-ninth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; was a resident of San Angelo, Tex., until his death on December 9, 1994.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 78 , 79
Hometown: San Angelo

Wyoming

Senate
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
O'MAHONEY, Joseph Christopher, a Senator from Wyoming; born in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Mass., November 5, 1884; attended the parochial and public schools and Columbia University, New York City; moved to Boulder, Colo., in 1908 and engaged as a reporter on the Boulder Herald; moved to Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1916 and served as city editor of the Cheyenne State Leader; executive secretary to Senator John B. Kendrick 1917–1920; graduated from the Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1920; admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Washington, D.C.; member of conference on uniform State laws 1925–1926; city attorney of Cheyenne, Wyo., 1929–1931; Democratic national committeeman 1929–1934; appointed First Assistant Postmaster General in 1933, and served until December 31, 1933, when he resigned to become a Senator; appointed on December 18, 1933, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John B. Kendrick, and elected on November 6, 1934, to fill this vacancy and also for the term commencing January 3, 1935; reelected in 1940 and again in 1946, and served from January 1, 1934, to January 3, 1953; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on the Economic Report (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952; elected on November 2, 1954, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lester C. Hunt, and also elected for the full term commencing January 3, 1955, and served from November 29, 1954, to January 3, 1961; was not a candidate for renomination in 1960; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Cheyenne, Wyo.; died in the naval hospital, Bethesda, Md., December 1, 1962; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77 78 79
Hometown: Cheyenne

Senate
H. H. Schwartz
SCHWARTZ, Henry Herman (Harry), a Senator from Wyoming; born on a farm near Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio, May 18, 1869; educated in the public schools of Mercer County and Cincinnati, Ohio; engaged in the newspaper business at Fort Recovery, Ohio, 1892–1894 and at Sioux Falls, S.Dak., 1894–1896; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Sioux Falls; member, South Dakota house of representatives 1896–1897; chief of the field division of the United States General Land Office, at Spokane, Wash., and Helena, Mont., 1897–1907; special assistant to the Attorney General in 1907; chief of field service, General Land Office, Washington, D.C., 1907–1910; moved to Casper, Wyo., in 1915; president of the Casper Board of Education and the Natrona County High School Board 1928–1934; member, Wyoming State senate 1933–1935; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1930; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1936 and served from January 3, 1937, to January 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Seventy-seventh Congress); appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the National Mediation Board 1943–1947; resumed the practice of law in Casper, Wyo., until his death there on April 24, 1955; interment in Highland Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75 76 77
Hometown: Casper

Senate
Edward V. Robertson
ROBERTSON, Edward Vivian, a Senator from Wyoming; born in Cardiff, Wales, May 27, 1881; attended schools in Wales; served in the Third Battalion of the Welsh Regiment during the Boer War 1899–1902; engaged in mechanical and electric power engineering 1902–1912; immigrated to the United States in 1912 and settled in Park County, Wyo.; engaged in the raising of livestock and the mercantile business at Cody, Wyo., 1912–1942; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1942, and served from January 3, 1943, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948; retired from political and public life; was a resident of Cody, Wyo., until 1958 when he moved to Pendleton, Oreg., where he died April 15, 1963; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Baker, Oreg.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 78 79
Hometown: Cody

House
Paul R. Greever
GREEVER, Paul Ranous, a Representative from Wyoming; born in Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kans., September 28, 1891; attended public and high schools, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1917; served as a first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Fourteenth Trench Mortar Battery, Eighty-ninth Division, from April 1917 to March 1919; was admitted to the bar in 1917 and commenced practice in Pine Bluffs, Wyo., and in Cody, Park County, Wyo., in 1921; served as mayor of Cody 1930–1932; trustee of the University of Wyoming 1933–1934; also engaged in banking; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935–January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; accidentally shot himself while cleaning a shotgun and died in Cody, Wyo., on February 16, 1943; interment in Riverside Cemetery.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 75
Hometown: Cody

House
Frank O. Horton
HORTON, Frank Ogilvie, a Representative from Wyoming; born in Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, October 18, 1882; attended the public schools; was graduated from Morgan Park (Ill.) Military Academy in 1899 and from the University of Chicago in 1903; during the Spanish-American War served as a private in Company C, Fiftieth Iowa Regiment, in 1898; moved to Saddlestring, Wyo., in 1905 and engaged in livestock raising; member of the State house of representatives 1921–1923; served in the State senate 1923–1931, being president in 1931; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1928 and 1936; Republican National committeeman 1937–1948; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939–January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed his former pursuits in Saddlestring, Wyo.; died in Sheridan, Wyo., August 17, 1948; interment in Willowgrove Cemetery, Buffalo, Wyo.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 76
Hometown: Saddlestring

House
John J. McIntyre
McINTYRE, John Joseph, a Representative from Wyoming; born on a farm in Dewey County, Okla., December 17, 1904; attended the grade schools at Ramona, Okla.; was graduated from the high school at Tulsa, Okla., and from the law department of the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1928; was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced practice in Glenrock, Wyo.; moved to Douglas, Converse County, Wyo., in 1931 and continued the practice of law; served as county and prosecuting attorney of Converse County, 1933–1936; special attorney for the Department of Justice at Washington, D.C., 1936–1938; associate attorney in the solicitor's office, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., in 1938; member of the Wyoming National Guard, with rank of captain, 1935–1941; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941–January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; deputy attorney general of Wyoming in 1943 and 1944; served as a staff sergeant, Headquarters Battery, Six Hundred and Sixtieth Field Artillery, from February 9, 1944, to August 22, 1945; decorated with the French Croix de Guerre; State auditor for Wyoming in 1946; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; Democratic nominee for Governor in 1950; elected in 1960 as a justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court for a four-year term; reelected in 1964 and served continuously until his death, November 30, 1974, in Cheyenne, Wyo.; interment in Memorial Gardens.
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Political party: Democrat
Congresses served: 77
Hometown: Douglas

House
Frank A. Barrett
BARRETT, Frank Aloysius, a Representative and a Senator from Wyoming; born in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr., November 10, 1892; attended the public schools; graduated from Creighton University, Omaha, Nebr., in 1913 and from its law department in 1916; during the First World War served as a sergeant in the Balloon Corps, United States Army 1917–1919; admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced practice in Lusk, Wyo.; also a rancher; county attorney of Niobrara County, Wyo. 1923–1932; member, State senate 1933–1935; member of the board of trustees of the University of Wyoming; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his resignation December 31, 1950, having been elected Governor of Wyoming; served as Governor from January 1951 until his resignation January 2, 1953, having been elected a Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958; general counsel, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and member of board of directors of Commodity Credit Corporation 1959–1960; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senate 1960; died in Cheyenne, Wyo., May 30, 1962; interment in Lusk Cemetery, Lusk, Wyo.
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Political party: Republican
Congresses served: 78 , 79
Hometown: Lusk