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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Illinois / USJoseph Gurney CANNON
(1836-1926)
CANNON, Joseph Gurney, a
Representative from Illinois; born in Guilford, Guilford County,
N.C., May 7, 1836; moved with his parents to Bloomingdale, Ind., in
1840; completed preparatory studies; studied law at the Cincinnati
Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice
in Terre Haute, Ind., in 1858; moved to Tuscola, Ill., in 1859;
State’s attorney for the twenty-seventh judicial district of
Illinois from March 1861 to December 1868; elected as a Republican
to the Forty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Post Office Department (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on
Appropriations (Fifty-first Congress); moved to Danville, Ill., in
1878; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the
Fifty-second Congress; elected to the Fifty-third and to the nine
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1913); chairman,
Committee on Appropriations (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh
Congresses), Committee on Rules (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first
Congresses); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fifty-eighth
through Sixty-first Congresses); received fifty-eight votes for the
presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention at
Chicago in 1908; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to
the Sixty-third Congress; again elected to the Sixty-fourth and to
the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1923);
declined renomination for Congress at the end of the Sixty-seventh
Congress; retired from public life; died in Danville, Vermilion
County, Ill., November 12, 1926; interment in Spring Hill
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Bolles, Blair. Tyrant From Illinois: Uncle Joe Cannon’s
Experiment With Personal Power. New York: Norton, 1951.
Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, [1974]; Cannon, Joseph
Gurney. Uncle Joe Cannon: The Story of a Pioneer American, As
Told to L. White Busbey. New York: Holt, 1927. Reprint, St.
Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1970; Cannon, Joseph Gurney.
The Memoirs of Joseph Gurney “Uncle Joe” Cannon.
Transcribed by Helen Leseure Abdill. [Danville, Ill.]: Vermilion
County Museum Society, 1996.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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