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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South DakotaFrancis Higbee CASE
(1896-1962)
Senate Years of Service:
1951-1962Party: RepublicanCASE, Francis Higbee, a
Representative and a Senator from South Dakota; born in Everly,
Clay County, Iowa, December 9, 1896; moved with his parents to
Sturgis, S.Dak., in 1909; attended the public schools; graduated
from Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.Dak., in 1918, and
from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in 1920; during the
First World War served as a private in the United States Marine
Corps in 1918; served in both the United States Army and the United
States Marine Corps Reserves; assistant editor, Epworth Herald,
Chicago, Ill., 1920-1922; telegraph editor and editorial writer on
the Rapid City (S.Dak.) Daily Journal 1922-1925; editor and
publisher of the Hot Springs (S.Dak.) Star 1925-1931; editor and
publisher of the Custer (S.Dak.) Chronicle 1931-1946; member of the
State regents of education 1931-1933; unsuccessful candidate for
election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; elected as a
Republican to the Seventy-fifth and to the six succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1951); elected to the United
States Senate in 1950; reelected in 1956 and served from January 3,
1951, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., June
22, 1962; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eighty-third
Congress); interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Rapid City,
S.Dak.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Chenoweth, Richard.
‘Francis Case: A Political Biography.’ South Dakota
Historical Collections 39 (1978): 288-433; U.S. Congress.
Memorial Addresses. 87th Cong., 2nd sess., 1962. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1962.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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