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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IowaBROOKHART, Smith Wildman
(1869—1944)
Senate Years of Service:
1922-1926; 1927-1933
Party:
Republican; Republican
BROOKHART, Smith Wildman, a Senator from Iowa; born near Arbela, Scotland County, Mo., February 2, 1869; attended the country schools in Missouri and Bloomfield, Iowa: graduated from the Southern Iowa Normal and Scientific Institute at Bloomfield in 1889; taught school for five years at Keosauqua; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Washington, Iowa; attorney of Washington County 1895-1901; during the Spanish-American War served as second lieutenant; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1912; major and lieutenant colonel during the First World War; president of the National Rifle Association 1921-1925; elected as a Progressive Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William S. Kenyon and served from November 7, 1922, to March 3, 1925; presented credentials as a Republican Senator-elect for the term commencing March 4, 1925, and served until April 12, 1926, when he was succeeded by Daniel F. Steck, who contested his election; again elected as a Republican in 1926 and served from March 4, 1927, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932 and for election as an independent candidate; foreign-trade advisor in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration 1933-1935; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination in 1936; practiced law in Washington, D.C., until 1943;, died in a veterans’ hospital in Whipple, Ariz., November 15, 1944; interment in Elm Grove Cemetery, Washington, Iowa.
Bibliography
American National Biography
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. 1932. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1968.
Briley, Ronald F. “Challenge to Normalcy: Four Mid-Western Political Mavericks, 1922-1924.” Master’s thesis, West Texas State University, 1972.
___. “Smith W. Brookhart and the Limitations of Senatorial Dissent.” Annals of Iowa
48 (Summer/Fall 1985): 56-79.
___. “Smith W. Brookhart and Russia.” Annals of Iowa
42 (Winter 1975): 541-56.
Dennis, Alfred Pearce. “The European Education of Senator Brookhart, along with the Senatorial Reply.” In Gods and Little Fishes
, pp. 26-83. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1931.
Johnston, Ray S. “Smith Wildman Brookhart: Iowa’s Last Populist.” Master’s thesis, Iowa State Teachers College, 1964.
Luthin, Reinhard H. “Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa: Insurgent Agrarian Politician.” Agricultural History
25 (October 1951): 187-97.
McDaniel, George W. “New Era Agrarian Radicalism: Smith W. Brookhart and the Populist Critique.” Annals of Iowa
49 (Winter/Spring 1988): 208-20.
___. “Prohibition Debate in Washington County, 1890-1894: Smith Wildman Brookhart’s Introduction to Politics.” Annals of Iowa
45 (Winter 1981): 519-36.
___. “The Republican Party in Iowa and the Defeat of Smith Wildman Brookhart, 1924-1926.” Annals of Iowa
48 (Winter/Spring 1987): 413-34.
___. “Smith Wildman Brookhart.” Palimpsest
63 (November/December 1982): 175-83.
___. “Smith Wildman Brookhart: Agrarian Radical in New Era America.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1985.
___. Smith Wildman Brookhart: Iowa’s Renegade Republican
. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1995.
___. “Smith Wildman Brookhart: The Man Who ‘Taught the Army How to Shoot.’ ‘’ Palimpsest
75 (Spring 1994): 30-45.
Neprash, Jerry Alvin. The Brookhart Campaigns in Iowa, 1920-1926: A Study in the Motivation of Political Attitudes
. 1932. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1968.
Russell, Barry Alexander. “The Changing Concept of Iowa Progressivism: Smith W. Brookhart vs. Albert B. Cummins, 1920-1926.” Master’s thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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