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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IdahoDWORSHAK, Henry Clarence
(1894—1962)
Senate Years of Service:
1946-1949; 1949-1962
Party:
Republican; Republican
DWORSHAK, Henry Clarence, a Representative and a Senator from Idaho; born in Duluth, Minn., August 29, 1894; attended the public schools; worked at the printing trade 1909-1918; during the First World War served overseas as a sergeant in the Fourth Antiaircraft Machine Gun Battalion 1918-1919; manager of printers’ supply business in Duluth, Minn., 1920-1924; editor and publisher of the Burley Bulletin in Burley, Idaho, 1924-1944; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, to November 5, 1946, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in a special election held on November 5, 1946, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Thomas; served from November 6, 1946, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948; appointed on October 14, 1949, to the United States Senate and subsequently elected on November 7, 1950, as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bert H. Miller; reelected in 1954 and again in 1960 and served from October 14, 1949, until his death in Washington, D.C., July 23, 1962; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Henry Clarence Dworshak
. 87th Cong., 2nd sess., 1962. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Henry C. Dworshak, Late a Senator from Idaho
. 87th Cong., 2d sess., 1962. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1963.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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