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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Kentucky / USAlben William BARKLEY
(1877-1956)
Senate Years of Service:
1927-1949; 1955-1956Party: Democrat; DemocratBARKLEY, Alben William, a
Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and a Vice President of
the United States; born near Lowes, Graves County, Ky., November
24, 1877; attended the public schools and graduated from Marvin
College, Clinton, Ky., in 1897; attended Emory College, Oxford,
Ga., and the University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville,
Va.; admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in Paducah,
McCracken County, Ky.; prosecuting attorney for McCracken County,
Ky. 1905-1909; judge of McCracken County Court 1909-1913; elected
as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the six succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1927); did not seek renomination
in 1926, having become a candidate for United States Senator;
elected to the United States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932,
1938, and again in 1944, and served from March 4, 1927, until his
resignation on January 19, 1949; majority leader 1937-1947;
minority leader 1947-1949; elected Vice President of the United
States on the Democratic ticket with President Harry S. Truman in
1948; inaugurated January 20, 1949, for the term ending January 20,
1953; again elected to the United States Senate and served from
January 3, 1955, until his death in Lexington, Va., April 30, 1956;
interment in Mount Kenton Cemetery, on Lone Oak Road, near Paducah,
Ky.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Barkley, Alben. That
Reminds Me. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954; Davis, Polly.
Alben Barkley: Senate Majority Leader and Vice President.
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1979.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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