Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956

LC control no.	n 81014059
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	18930111
Death date	19560228
Place of birth	Brown (W. Va.)
Place of death	Bethesda (Md.)
Affiliation	West Virginia University. College of Law United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 107th West Virginia. National Guard United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Legislators Lawyers Judges
Found in	U.S. Cong. S. Committee on the Judiciary. Amendments to the Act ... requiring the registration of agents of ... 1941. Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, June 23, 2014: (Kilgore, Harley Martin, a Senator from West Virginia; born in Brown, Harrison County, W.Va., January 11, 1893; attended the public schools; graduated from the law department of West Virginia University at Morgantown in 1914 and admitted to the bar the same year; taught school in Hancock, W.Va., in 1914 and 1915; organized the first high school in Raleigh County, W.Va., in 1915, serving as its principal for one year; commenced the practice of law in Beckley, W.Va., in 1916; during the First World War served in the Infantry from 1917, until discharged as a captain in 1920; organized the West Virginia National Guard in 1921 and retired as a colonel in 1953; judge of the criminal court of Raleigh County, W.Va., 1933-1940; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1940; reelected in 1946 and again in 1952 and served from January 3, 1941, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., February 28, 1956; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Eighty-fourth Congress); interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.)
Associated language	eng