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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Gossett, Ed Lee
Gossett, Ed Lee, a Representative from Texas; born in a sawmill camp known as Yellow Pine, near Many, Sabine Parish, La., January 27, 1902; moved to Texas in 1908 with his parents, who settled on a farm near Henrietta, Clay County; attended the rural schools of Clay and Garza Counties, Tex.; was graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1924 and from the law school of the same university in 1927; was admitted to the bar the latter year and commenced practice in Vernon, Tex.; moved to Wichita Falls, Tex., in 1937 and continued the practice of law; served as district attorney of the forty-sixth judicial district 1933-1937; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1949). Reelected to to Eighty-first Congress.
GOTT, Daniel, a Representative from New York; born in Hebron, near New London, Conn., July 10, 1794; attended the public schools; at the age of sixteen taught school; moved to Pompey, N.Y., in 1817; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Pompey, N.Y.; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); moved to Syracuse, N.Y., in 1853 and resumed the practice of his profession; died in Syracuse, N.Y., July 6, 1864; interment in Pompey Hill Cemetery, Pompey, N.Y.
GOULD, Arthur Robinson, a Senator from Maine; born in East Corinth, Penobscot County, Maine, March 16, 1857; attended the common schools and East Corinth Academy; in early life engaged in commercial enterprises; moved to Presque Isle, Maine, in 1887 and engaged in the lumber business, operating mills at Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle; was the builder of the Maine & New Brunswick Co. power plant and also of an electric railroad from Presque Isle to Caribou, linking it with the Canadian Pacific Railway; president of the Aroostook Valley Railroad Co. 1902-1946; served in the State senate in 1921 and 1922; elected on November 29, 1926, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bert M. Fernald and served from November 30, 1926, to March 3, 1931; was not a candidate for renomination in 1930; engaged in the railroad and lumber businesses; died in Presque Isle, Maine, July 24, 1946; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Gossett, Ed Lee," 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.1226 Original Sources, accessed April 24, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LKQE1ZPPEGWXIAV.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Gossett, Ed Lee." 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.1226, Original Sources. 24 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LKQE1ZPPEGWXIAV.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Gossett, Ed Lee' 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.1226. Original Sources, retrieved 24 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LKQE1ZPPEGWXIAV.
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