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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | J. Swagar Sherley |
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Louisville, Kentucky , United States |
| Email | None |
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November 28, 1871
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| Died | February 13, 1941
(69 years)
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| Contributor | Patrick |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | SHERLEY, Joseph Swagar, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., November 28, 1871; attended the public schools; was graduated from the Louisville High School in 1889 and from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1891; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Louisville, Ky.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1919); chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Sixty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; director of the division of finance of the United States Railroad Administration from April 1919 to September 1920, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; died while on a visit in Louisville, Ky., February 13, 1941; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery.
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