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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaBONNER, Herbert Covington
(1891—1965)
BONNER, Herbert Covington, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., May 16, 1891; graduated from Graham School, Warrenton, N.C.; United States Army during World War I; salesman; farmer; secretary to United States Representative Lindsay C. Warren, 1924-1940; elected simultaneously as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Lindsay C. Warren; reelected to the Seventy-eighth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (November 5, 1940-November 7, 1965); chair, Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress (Seventy-ninth Congress); chair, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-ninth Congresses); died on November 7, 1965, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Oakdale Cemetery, Washington, N.C.
United States. 89th Cong., 1st sess., 1965. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Herbert C. Bonner, late a Representative from North Carolina
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1966.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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