| LC control no. | n 96026132 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lenroot, Irvine Luther, 1869-1949 |
| Birth date | 1869-01-31 |
| Death date | 1949-01-26 |
| Place of birth | Superior (Wis.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Wisconsin. Legislature. Assembly United States. Congress. House Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Legislators Lawyers Judges |
| Found in | NUCMC data from the Library of Congress Manuscript Div. for His Papers, 1890-1971 (Lenroot, Irvine Luther, 1869-1949; jurist, lawyer, U.S. senator from Wisconsin) LC data base, 3/18/96 (hdg.: Lenroot, Irvine Luther, 1869-1949) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed December 12, 2023: (Lenroot, Irvine Luther, a Representative and a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Superior, Wis., January 31, 1869 ; attended the common schools; worked as a logger and a court reporter; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice in Superior, Wis.; member, State assembly 1901-1907, and served as speaker 1903-1907; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until April 17, 1918, when he resigned, having been elected Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on April 2, 1918, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Paul O. Husting; reelected in 1920 and served from April 18, 1918, to March 3, 1927; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926; chairman, Committee on Railroads (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Sixty-eighth Congress), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-ninth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; appointed judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals by President Herbert Hoover in 1929, and served until his retirement in 1944; died in Washington, D.C., January 26, 1949; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Superior, Wis.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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