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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Pheiffer, William Townsend
Pheiffer, William Townsend, a Representative from New York; born in Purcell, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), July 15, 1898; attended the public schools of Purcell, Ardmore, and Oklahoma City, Okla., and the University of Southern California at Los Angeles; during the First World War served as a private in the Cavalry, United States Army, in 1918; was graduated from the law department of the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 1919; was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced law in Sayre, Okla., 1923-1926; moved to Amarillo, Tex., in 1926 and continued the practice of law until 1939, when he moved to New York City, N.Y.; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1932 and to the Republican State conventions in 1936 and 1942; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; during World War II entered the United States Army as a captain of Cavalry and served from March 12, 1943, to April 22, 1944; received the Army Award of Merit; appointed counsel for the Petroleum Administration for War, Washington, D.C., on August 1, 1944, and served until February 8, 1945, when he resumed the private practice of law; executive assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee 1945-1948; is a resident of New York, N.Y.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Pheiffer, William Townsend," 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.1675 Original Sources, accessed October 13, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L4DJAKMHRVFCQAS.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Pheiffer, William Townsend." 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.1675, Original Sources. 13 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L4DJAKMHRVFCQAS.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Pheiffer, William Townsend' 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.1675. Original Sources, retrieved 13 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L4DJAKMHRVFCQAS.
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