LC control no. | n 89125922 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Chavez, Dennis, 1888-1962 |
Birth date | 1888-04-08 |
Death date | 1962-11-18 |
Place of birth | Valencia County (N.M.) |
Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate. Office of the Secretary Georgetown University. Law Department New Mexico. Legislature. House of Representatives United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
Found in | NUCMC data from LC Manuscript Div. for Cutting, B.M. Papers, 1899-1950 (Chavez, Dennis, 1888-1962) LC data base, 2-23-90 (hdg.: Chavez, Dennis, 1888-1962) WWWA, vol. 4, 1961-1968 (Chavez, Dennis; New Mexico state legislator and U.S. senator) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, April 25, 2016 (Chavez, Dennis, a Representative and a Senator from New Mexico; born in Los Chavez, Valencia County, N.Mex., April 8, 1888; attended the public schools; worked as a grocer's clerk as a boy and later in the engineering department of the city of Albuquerque; travelled to Washington in 1917 with Senator Andrieus A. Jones and served as clerk in the office of the Secretary of the United States Senate 1917-1920; graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1920; admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Albuquerque, N.Mex.; member, State house of representatives 1923-1924; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-third Congress); did not seek renomination in 1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator; appointed as a Democrat on May 11, 1935, and elected on November 3, 1936, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bronson M. Cutting; reelected in 1940, 1946, 1952, and again in 1958, and served from May 11, 1935, until his death in Washington, D.C., November 18, 1962; chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Seventy-ninth Congress), Committee on Public Works (Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses); interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Albuquerque, N.Mex.) |