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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasThaddeus Horatius CARAWAY
(1871-1931)
Senate Years of Service:
1921-1931Party: DemocratCARAWAY, Thaddeus
Horatius, (husband of Hattie Wyatt Caraway), a
Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born on a farm near
Springhill, Stoddard County, Mo., October 17, 1871; attended the
common schools; moved to Arkansas in 1883 with his parents, who
settled in Clay County; graduated from Dickson (Tenn.) College in
1896; taught in country schools 1896-1899; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Osceola, Ark.; moved to
Lake City, Craighead County, Ark., in 1900 and to Jonesboro, Ark.,
in 1901, and continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney
for the second judicial circuit of Arkansas 1908-1912; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1913-March 3, 1921); did not seek renomination, having
become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1920; reelected in 1926 and served from March 4,
1921, until his death, due to a blood clot in the coronary artery,
in Little Rock, Ark., November 6, 1931; lay in state in Arkansas
state capital in Little Rock, November 8, 1931; interment in
Woodlawn (formerly West Lawn) Cemetery, Jonesboro, Ark.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Ledbetter, Calvin R., Jr.
“The Other Caraway: Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway.”
Arkansas Historical Quarterly 64 (Summer 2005): 123-146;
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 72nd Cong., 1st sess.,
1931-1932. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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