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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Tasker L. Oddie |
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Reno, Nevada , United States |
| Email | None |
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October 20, 1870
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| Died | February 17, 1950
(79 years)
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| Contributor | User 13 |
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| Info | Senator from Nevada; born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., October 20, 1870; reared in East Orange, N.J.; attended the public schools; while engaged in business in New York attended night law school and graduated from the law department of New York University in 1895; was admitted to the bar the same year, but did not engage in extensive practice,
He came to Nevada to look after the business interests of his New York employer, the prominent and wealthy Stokes family. He became a member of the Nevada Bar in 1898 and served as district attorney for Nye County. During the Tonopah mining boom at the turn of the century he became the manager of the Tonopah Mining Company.
District attorney for Nye County 1901-1902; member, State senate 1903-1906; resumed his former business pursuits; Governor of Nevada 1911-1915; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920; reelected in 1926 and served from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1933; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Seventy-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932; engaged in mining; died in San Francisco, Calif., February 17, 1950; interment in Lone Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Nev.
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