Connally, Tom, 1877-1963

LC control no.	n 92029282
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Connally, Tom, 1877-1963 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Connally, Thomas Terry, 1877-1963
Birth date	18770819
Death date	19631028
Place of birth	Hewitt (Tex.)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Affiliation	Baylor University University of Texas. School of Law Texas. 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 Atlanta Historical Society for Connally family history, 1782-ca. 1930 (Connally, Tom; sen. from Tex.) Biog. dir. Amer. congress (Connally, Thomas Terry (Tom); rep. and sen. from Tex.; b. Aug. 19, 1877; d. Oct. 28, 1963) LC data base, 3-17-92 (hdg.: Connally, Thomas Terry, 1877-1963) Report on Western Europe, 1954 title page (Tom Connally) Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress website, December 12, 2013 (Connally, Thomas Terry (Tom), (step-grandfather of Connie Mack III), a Representative and a Senator from Texas; born near Hewitt, McLennan County, Tex., August 19, 1877; attended the public schools; graduated from Baylor University, Waco, Tex., in 1896 and from the law department of the University of Texas at Austin in 1898; admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice in Waco, Tex.; moved to Marlin, Falls County, Tex., in 1899 and continued the practice of law; served as sergeant major in the Second Regiment, Texas Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War; member, State house of representatives 1901-1904; prosecuting attorney of Falls County, Tex. 1906-1910; during the First World War became captain and adjutant of the Twenty-second Infantry Brigade, Eleventh Division, United States Army 1918; permanent chairman of Texas Democratic State convention in 1938; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917, until March 3, 1929); did not seek renomination in 1928, having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1928; reelected in 1934, 1940, and again in 1946, and served from March 4, 1929, to January 3, 1953, was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Seventy-seventh through Seventy-ninth and Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses); member and vice chairman of the United States delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco in 1945; representative of the United States to the first session of the General Assembly of the United Nations at London and to the second session at New York in 1946; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., where he died on October 28, 1963; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, Tex. )
Associated language	eng