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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriClarence Andrew CANNON
(1879-1964)
CANNON, Clarence Andrew, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Elsberry, Lincoln County,
Mo., April 11, 1879; was graduated from La Grange Junior College,
Hannibal, Mo., in 1901, from William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.,
in 1903, and from the law department of the University of Missouri
at Columbia in 1908; professor of history, Stephens College,
Columbia, Mo., 1904-1908; was admitted to the bar in 1908 and
commenced practice in Troy, Mo.; in 1911 became a clerk in the
office of the Speaker of the House; parliamentarian of the House of
Representatives in the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth
Congresses, 1915-1920; parliamentarian of the Democratic National
Conventions 1920-1960; author of “A Synopsis of the Procedure
of the House (1918),” “Procedure in the House of
Representatives (1920),” and “Cannon’s Procedure
(1928),” subsequent editions of the latter being published
periodically by resolutions of the House until 1963; editor and
compiler of “Precedents of the House of
Representatives” by act of Congress; regent of the
Smithsonian Institution 1935-1964; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-eighth and to the twenty succeeding Congresses and served
from March 4, 1923, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 12,
1964; chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Seventy-seventh
through Seventy-ninth Congresses, Eighty-first and Eighty-second
Congresses, and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-eighth Congresses);
interment in Elsberry City Cemetery, Elsberry, Mo.
Bibliography
Fulkerson, William M. “A Rhetorical Study of the
Appropriations Speaking of Clarence Andrew Cannon in the House of
Representatives, 1923-1964.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State
University, 1969; Jarvis, Charles A. ”Clarence Cannon, the
Corn Cob Pipe, and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff.” Missouri
Historical Review 84 (January 1990): 151-65.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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