| LC control no. | n 95032448 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brookhart, Smith Wildman, 1869-1944 |
| Birth date | 1869-02-02 |
| Death date | 1944-11-15 |
| Place of birth | Scotland County (Mo.) |
| Place of death | Whipple Barracks (Ariz.) |
| Affiliation | Southern Iowa Normal and Scientific Institute National Rifle Association of America United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Teachers Lawyers Soldiers |
| Found in | LC database, 04-03-95 (hdg.: Brookhart, Smith Wildman, 1869-1944) Smith Wildman Brookhart, 1995. Biog, dir. of the U.S. Congress website, April 6, 2018 (Brookhart, Smith Wildman, a Senator from Iowa; Senate years of service: 1922-1926; 1927-1933; born near Arbela, Scotland County, Mo., February 2, 1869; attended the country schools in Missouri and Bloomfield, Iowa: graduated from the Southern Iowa Normal and Scientific Institute at Bloomfield in 1889; taught school for five years at Keosauqua; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Washington, Iowa; attorney of Washington County 1895-1901; during the Spanish-American War served as second lieutenant; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1912; major and lieutenant colonel during the First World War; president of the National Rifle Association 1921-1925; elected as a Progressive Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William S. Kenyon and served from November 8, 1922, to March 3, 1925; presented credentials as a Republican Senator-elect for the term commencing March 4, 1925, and served until April 12, 1926, when he was succeeded by Daniel F. Steck, who successfully contested Brookhart's election; again elected as a Republican in 1926 and served from March 4, 1927, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932 and for election as an independent candidate; foreign-trade advisor in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration 1933-1935; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination in 1936; practiced law in Washington, D.C., until 1943; died in a veterans' hospital in Whipple, Ariz., November 15, 1944; interment in Elm Grove Cemetery, Washington, Iowa) |
| Associated language | eng |
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