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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Tennessee / USJoseph Wellington BYRNS
(1869-1936)
BYRNS, Joseph Wellington,
(father of Joseph Wellington Byrns, Jr.), a Representative from
Tennessee; born near Cedar Hill, Robertson County, Tenn., July 20,
1869; attended the common schools; was graduated from Nashville
High School in 1887 and from the law department of Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1890; was admitted to the bar in
1890 and commenced the practice of law in Nashville; member of the
State house of representatives, 1895-1901; member of the State
senate in 1901-1903; unsuccessful candidate for district attorney
general of Davidson County in 1902; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-first and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served
from March 4, 1909, until his death; chairman, Committee on
Appropriations (Seventy-second Congress); majority leader
(Seventy-third Congress), Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Seventy-fourth Congress); chairman of the Democratic National
Congressional Campaign Committee 1928-1930; was a nominee for
reelection to the Seventy-fifth Congress at the time of his death;
died in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 1936; funeral services were
held in the Hall of the House of Representatives; interment in
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
Bibliography
Irish, Ann B. Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee: A Political
Biography. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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