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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Lawrence C. Phipps |
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Denver, Colorado , United States |
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August 30, 1862
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| Died | March 01, 1958
(95 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
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| Info | born in Amityville, Pa., August 30, 1862; moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1867; attended the common schools; entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., advancing from clerk to first vice president; retired from active participation in the steel business in 1901; moved to Denver, Colo., and engaged in the investment business; donor of the Agnes Memorial Sanatorium in Denver; president of the Colorado Taxpayers’ Protective League in 1913; chairman of the mountain division in the Red Cross campaign in 1917; member of the Colorado council of defense in 1917; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1918; reelected in 1924, and served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1931; was not a candidate for reelection in 1930; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Education and Labor (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses), Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Seventy-first Congress); engaged in railroad and electric power investments; died in Santa Monica, Calif., March 1, 1958; interment in Fairmount Mausoleum, Denver, Colo.
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