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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IowaSmith Wildman BROOKHART
(1869-1944)
Senate Years of Service:
1922-1926; 1927-1933Party: Republican;
RepublicanBROOKHART, 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; Dictionary of American
Biography; McDaniel, George William. Smith Wildman
Brookhart: Iowa’s Renegade Republican. Ames: Iowa State
University Press, 1995; Neprash, Jerry. The Brookhart Campaigns
in Iowa 1920-1926: A Study in the Motivation of Political
Attitudes. 1932. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1968.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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