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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Francis G. Newlands |
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Reno, Nevada , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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August 28, 1848
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| Died | December 24, 1917
(69 years)
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| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | (son-in-law of William Sharon)
Representative and a Senator from Nevada; born in Natchez, Adams County, Miss., August 28, 1848; moved to Illinois in 1848 with his parents, who settled in Quincy; privately tutored; attended Yale College and the Columbian College Law School (now George Washington University), Washington, D.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1869; moved to San Francisco in 1870 and practiced law; moved to Nevada in 1888 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1903); did not seek renomination in 1902, having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1903; reelected in 1909 and again in 1915 and served from March 4, 1903, until his death in Washington, D.C., December 24, 1917; chairman, Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Interstate Commerce (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses); interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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