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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisIra Clifton COPLEY
(1864-1947)
COPLEY, Ira Clifton,
(nephew of Richard Henry Whiting), a Representative from Illinois;
born near Galesburg, Knox County, Ill., October 25, 1864; moved
with his parents to Aurora, Ill., in 1867; attended the public
schools and Jennings Seminary at Aurora; was graduated from Yale
University in 1887 and from the Union College of Law at Chicago in
1889; became connected with the gas and electric business in
Aurora, Ill., in 1889; owner and publisher of the Beacon-News at
Aurora in 1905, the Courier-News at Elgin in 1908, and the
Herald-News at Joliet in 1913; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses; reelected as a Progressive
to the Sixty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth
through Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1923); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1922; continued the development
and publishing of daily newspapers, acquiring the Illinois State
Journal at Springfield, the Union and the Tribune at San Diego,
Calif., and eleven other dailies in southern California; died in
Aurora, Ill., November 1, 1947; interment in Spring Lake
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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