OVERVIEW:

BORN:
January 22, 1852;
Cincinatti, Ohio

DIED:
February 27, 1936;
Gallatin, Missouri

EDUCATION:
Christian University (now Culver-Stockton College)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1877-1881:
Lawyer in Private Practice;
Public Administrator of Daviess County, Missouri;
1882-1901:
Secretary; Board of Education of Gallatin, Missouri
President; Board of Education of Gallatin, Missouri
1883-1887:
Member, Missouri House of Representatives
1887:
Speaker, Missouri House of Representatives
1891-1892:
Mayor of Gallatin, Missouri; 
Hospital Executive
1901-1907:
Judge, Seventh Judicial Circuit of Missouri;
1907-1919:
U.S. House of Representatives;
Chair, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries;
1913-1914;
Chair, U.S. Commission to the International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea
1919-1921;
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
1922:
Delegate at Large, Missouri state constitutional convention

RESOURCES:
Miller Center
Biographical Directory of Congress
Wikipedia

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