Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Nelson, William Lester

Nelson, William Lester, a Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near Bunceton, Cooper County, Mo., August 4, 1875; attended the country schools in his native county, Hooper Institute, William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo., and the Missouri College of Agriculture at Columbia; taught school for five years; subsequently entered the newspaper business at Bunceton, Mo.; member of the State house of representatives 1901-1903 and 1905-1907; moved to Columbia, Boone County, Mo., to become assistant secretary of the State board of agriculture and served from 1908 to 1918; member of the editorial staff of the Iowa Homestead and other Pierce publications 1921-1924; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; author of various agricultural publications; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed journalistic pursuits in Columbia, Mo.; elected to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; elected to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; served as assistant to War Food Administrator Marvin Jones in 1943; returned to Columbia, Mo., and became active in rural life and wrote numerous pamphlets on farming; died in Columbia, Mo., December 31, 1946; interment in Columbia Cemetery.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Nelson, William Lester," 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.1611 Original Sources, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LK2TWJYEDZZ7N8U.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Nelson, William Lester." 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.1611, Original Sources. 25 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LK2TWJYEDZZ7N8U.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Nelson, William Lester' 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.1611. Original Sources, retrieved 25 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LK2TWJYEDZZ7N8U.