Farrington, Joseph R. (Joseph Rider), 1897-1954

LC control no.	no2001084062
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Farrington, Joseph R. (Joseph Rider), 1897-1954 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Farrington, Joseph Rider, 1897-1954 Farrington, J. R. (Joseph Rider), 1897-1954
Birth date	18971015
Death date	19540619
Place of birth	Washington, D.C.
Place of death	Washington, D.C.
Affiliation	United States. Army United States. Congress
Profession or occupation	Reporters and reporting Legislators--United States
Found in	The American Samoan Commission's visit to Samoa, 1931: t.p. (Joseph R. Farrington) OCLC, Oct. 22, 2001 (hdg.: Farrington, Joseph Rider, 1897-1954; predominant usage: Joseph R. Farrington; usage: Joseph Rider Farrington; J.R. Farrington) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, August 13, 2013 (Farrington, Joseph Rider (1897-1954); husband of Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington, a Delegate from the Territory of Hawaii; born in Washington, D.C., October 15, 1897, and while still an infant moved with his parents to Hawaii; attended Punahou Academy, Honolulu, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison; left college at the close of his junior year in June 1918 and enlisted in the United States Army; commissioned a second lieutenant of Field Artillery in September and was discharged in December 1918; returned to the University of Wisconsin and graduated in 1919; reporter on the staff of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia in 1919 and in Washington, D.C., 1920-1923; returned to Honolulu to become associated with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd., and was president and general manager from 1939 until his death; secretary to the Hawaii Legislative Commission in 1933; member of the Territorial senate, 1934-1942; elected as a Republican Delegate to the Seventy-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943 until his death in Washington, D.C., June 19, 1954)
Associated language	eng