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Dworshak, Henry C. (Henry Clarence), 1894-1962

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Personal name headingDworshak, Henry C. (Henry Clarence), 1894-1962
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Birth date1894-08-29
Death date1962-07-23
Place of birthDuluth (Minn.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
AffiliationUnited States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
United States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Congress. Senate
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Profession or occupationEditors
Publishers and publishing
Legislators
Found inMemorial services held in the Senate and House of Representatives ... 1963: t.p. (Henry C. Dworshak)
LCCN 63-60316 (Dworshak, Henry Clarence, 1894-1962)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, August 7, 2013 (Dworshak, Henry Clarence (1894-1962); a Representative and a Senator from Idaho; born in Duluth, Minn., August 29, 1894; worked at the printing trade, 1909-1918; during the First World War served overseas as a sergeant in the U.S. Army Fourth Antiaircraft Machine Gun Battalion in the American Expeditionary Forces, 1918-1919; manager of printers' supply business in Duluth, Minn., 1920-1924; editor and publisher of the Burley Bulletin in Burley, Idaho, 1924-1944; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, to November 5, 1946, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in a special election held on November 5, 1946, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Thomas; served from November 6, 1946, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948; appointed on October 14, 1949 to the United States Senate and subsequently elected on November 7, 1950 as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bert H. Miller; reelected in 1954 and again in 1960 and served from October 14, 1949 until his death in Washington, D.C., July 23, 1962; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.)
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