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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Graham, William Johnson
Graham, William Johnson, a Representative from Illinois; born near New Castle, Lawrence County, Pa., February 7, 1872; moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled near Aledo, Mercer County, in 1879; attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1893; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Aledo, Ill.; prosecuting attorney of Mercer County 1901-1909; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1912; member of the State house of representatives in 1915 and 1916; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1917, to June 7, 1924, when ha resigned; appointed by President Coolidge on May 29, 1924, as presiding judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals, Washington, D.C., and served from June 8, 1924, until his death in Washington, D.C., November 10, 1937; remains were cremated and the ashes interred in Aledo Cemetery, Aledo, Ill.
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Chicago:
U.S. Congress, "Graham, William Johnson," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1229 Original Sources, accessed July 1, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CZJULIWB4S3KVX5.
MLA:
U.S. Congress. "Graham, William Johnson." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1229, Original Sources. 1 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CZJULIWB4S3KVX5.
Harvard:
U.S. Congress, 'Graham, William Johnson' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1229. Original Sources, retrieved 1 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CZJULIWB4S3KVX5.
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