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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasCARAWAY, Thaddeus Horatius
(1871—1931)
Senate Years of Service:
1921-1931
Party:
Democrat
CARAWAY, 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.
Adams, Horace. “Thaddeus H. Caraway in the United States Senate.” Ph.D. dissertation, George Peabody College for Teachers of Vanderbilt University, 1936.
Ledbetter, Calvin R., Jr. “The Other Caraway: Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
64 (Summer 2005): 123-146.
U.S. Congress. House. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Thaddeus H. Caraway, Late a Senator from Arkansas
. 72d Cong., 1st sess., 1931-1932. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1932.
Williams, Nancy A., ed. Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives
. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000: 53-54.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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