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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisWilliam Levi DAWSON
(1886-1970)
DAWSON, William Levi, a
Representative from Illinois; born in Albany, Dougherty County,
Ga., April 26, 1886; attended the public schools and Kent College
of Law, Chicago, Ill.; was graduated from Albany (Ga.) Normal
School in 1905, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1909, and
Northwestern University Law School, Evanston, Ill.; during the
First World War served overseas as a first lieutenant with the
Three Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry 1917-1919; was admitted to
the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; State
central committeeman for the First Congressional District of
Illinois 1930-1932; alderman for the second ward of Chicago
1933-1939 and Democratic committeeman since 1939; elected as a
Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the thirteen succeeding
Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his death
November 9, 1970, in Chicago, Ill.; chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in Executive Departments (Eighty-first and
Eighty-second Congresses), Committee on Government Operations
(Eighty-fourth through Ninety-first Congresses); cremated; ashes
placed in Columbarium in Griffin Funeral Home, Chicago, Ill.
Bibliography
Manning, Christopher. William L. Dawson and the Limits of Black
Electoral Leadership. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University
Press, 2009; ”William Levi Dawson” in Black
Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction
of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History
& Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington:
Government Printing Office, 2008.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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