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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Mansfield, Joseph Jefferson
Mansfield, Joseph Jefferson, a Representative from Texas; born in Wayne, Wayne County, Va. (now West Virginia), February 9, 1861; attended the public schools; moved to Alleyton, Tex., in 1881; employed as a farm and nursery laborer and later as a baggage-master and freight clerk with the Southern Pacific Railway; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice at Eagle Lake, Tex.; also established the first newspaper in that city; organized two companies of the National Guard of Texas in 1886; received commissions successively as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain, and was appointed adjutant of the Fourth Texas Regiment with the rank of captain; prosecuting attorney of Eagle Lake, Tex., in 1888; mayor in 1889; prosecuting attorney of Colorado County 1892-1896; ex officio county superintendent of schools 1896-1910; judge of Colorado County 1896-1916; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1917, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., July 12, 1947; interment in Masonic Cemetery, Eagle Lake, Tex.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Mansfield, Joseph Jefferson," 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.1499 Original Sources, accessed December 4, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=USIA3E35PE6I1RU.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Mansfield, Joseph Jefferson." 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.1499, Original Sources. 4 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=USIA3E35PE6I1RU.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Mansfield, Joseph Jefferson' 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.1499. Original Sources, retrieved 4 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=USIA3E35PE6I1RU.
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