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Downey, Sheridan, 1884-1961

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Personal name headingDowney, Sheridan, 1884-1961
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Birth date18840311
Death date19611025
Place of birthLaramie (Wyo.)
Place of deathSan Francisco (Calif.)
AffiliationUniversity of Michigan. Department of Law
United States. Congress. Senate
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLegislators
Lawyers
Found inAuthor's Why I believe in the Townsend plan, 1936: t.p. (Sheridan Downey) p. 7 (lawyer, economist, and tax authority)
LC database, Feb. 5, 2002 (hdg.: Downey, Sheridan, 1884-1961)
Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, February 25, 2015 (Downey, Sheridan, (son of Stephen Wheeler Downey), a Senator from California; born in Laramie, Albany County, Wyo., March 11, 1884; attended the public schools; graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1907; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Laramie, Wyo.; moved to Sacramento, Calif., in 1913 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1938; reelected in 1944 and served from January 3, 1939, until his resignation on November 30, 1950, due to ill health; was not a candidate for renomination in 1950; chairman, Committee on Civil Service (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses); died in San Francisco, Calif., October 25, 1961; body willed to the University of California Medical Center)