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Chavez, Dennis, 1888-1962

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Personal name headingChavez, Dennis, 1888-1962
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Birth date1888-04-08
Death date1962-11-18
Place of birthValencia County (N.M.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
AffiliationUnited 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 occupationLegislators Lawyers
Found inNUCMC 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.)