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Affiliation | Republican |
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Name | William S. Kenyon |
Address | Fort Dodge, Iowa , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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June 10, 1869
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Died | September 09, 1933
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Contributor | Thomas Walker |
Last Modifed | RBH Aug 10, 2015 03:37pm |
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Info | KENYON, William Squire, a Senator from Iowa; born in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, June 10, 1869; moved to Iowa in 1870 and attended the public schools; attended Grinnell (Iowa) College and completed a course of law at Iowa State University Law School at Iowa City in 1890; admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in Fort Dodge, Iowa; prosecuting attorney for Webster County 1892-1896; district judge of the eleventh judicial district of Iowa 1900-1902; general counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad 1904-1907; assistant to the Attorney General of the United States 1910-1911, when he resigned, having been elected Senator; elected in 1911 as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan P. Dolliver; reelected in 1912 and 1918 and served from April 12, 1911, to February 24, 1922, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the War Department (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Standards, Weights and Measures (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Education and Labor (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses), Committee on the Philippines (Sixty-sixth Congress); judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, from 1922, until his death; twice declined Cabinet appointments offered by President Calvin Coolidge; appointed by President Herbert Hoover in 1929 as a member of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, better known as the Wickersham Commission; died at his summer home at Sebasco Estates, Maine, September 9, 1933; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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