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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Byrnes, John William
Byrnes, John William, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Green Bay, Brown County, Wis., June 12, 1913; attended the public and parochial schools; was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1936 and from the law school of the same university in 1938; was admitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced practice in Green Bay, Wis.; served as a special deputy commissioner of banking for the State of Wisconsin from 1938 until his resignation in 1940 to assume his duties as State senator; member of the State senate 1940-1944, serving as majority floor leader in 1943; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1949). Reelected to the Eighty-first Congress.
BYRNS, Joseph Wellington, a Representative from Tennessee; born near Cedar Hill, Robertson County, Tenn., July 20, 1869; attended the common schools; was graduated from Nashville High School in 1887 and from the law department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1890; was admitted to the bar in 1890 and commenced the practice of law in Nashville, Tenn.; member of the State house of representatives in 1895, 1897, and again in 1899, serving as speaker during the latter term; member of the State senate in 1901; unsuccessful candidate for district attorney general of Davidson County in 1902; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Parker and Davis in 1904; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until his death; was a nominee for reelection to the Seventy-fifth Congress at the time of his death; chairman of the Democratic National Congressional Campaign Committee 1928-1930; served as Democratic majority leader during the Seventy-third Congress and as Speaker of the House of Representatives during the Seventy-fourth Congress; died in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 1936; funeral services were held in the Hall of the House of Representatives; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Byrnes, John William," 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.931 Original Sources, accessed October 11, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LKBR9JMJW3RJ9RH.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Byrnes, John William." 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.931, Original Sources. 11 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LKBR9JMJW3RJ9RH.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Byrnes, John William' 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.931. Original Sources, retrieved 11 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LKBR9JMJW3RJ9RH.
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