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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaSheridan DOWNEY
(1884-1961)
Senate Years of Service:
1939-1950Party: DemocratDOWNEY, Sheridan, (son of
Stephen Wheeler Downey), a Senator from California; born in
Laramie, Albany County, Wyo., March 11, 1884; attended the public
schools; graduated from the law department of the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1907; admitted to the bar the same year
and commenced practice in Laramie, Wyo.; moved to Sacramento,
Calif., in 1913 and continued the practice of law; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1938; reelected in 1944 and
served from January 3, 1939, until his resignation on November 30,
1950, due to ill health; was not a candidate for renomination in
1950; chairman, Committee on Civil Service (Seventy-eighth and
Seventy-ninth Congresses); died in San Francisco, Calif., October
25, 1961; body willed to the University of California Medical
Center.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Downey, Sheridan. Onward America. Sacramento:
Larkin Printing Co., 1933; Downey, Sheridan. They Would Rule the
Valley. San Francisco: n.p., 1947.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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