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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsThomas Hopkinson ELIOT
(1907-1991)
ELIOT, Thomas Hopkinson,
(great-grandson of Samuel Atkins Eliot), a Representative from
Massachusetts; born in Cambridge, Mass., June 14, 1907; attended
Browne and Nichols School; was graduated from Harvard University in
1928; student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, in 1928
and 1929; was graduated from the law school of Harvard University
in 1932; was admitted to the bar in 1933 and commenced practice in
Buffalo, N.Y.; served as assistant solicitor in the United States
Department of Labor 1933-1935; general counsel for the Social
Security Board 1935-1938; lecturer on government at Harvard
University in 1937 and 1938; regional director of the Wage and Hour
Division in the Department of Labor in 1939 and 1940; unsuccessful
candidate for election in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3,
1941-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1942 and for nomination in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress;
director of the British Division, Office of War Information,
London, England, and special assistant to the United States
Ambassador, 1943; chairman of the appeals committee, National War
Labor Board, 1943-1944; served with the Office of Strategic
Services in 1944; served as chief counsel, Division of Power,
Department of the Interior, from November 1944 to November 1945;
engaged in the practice of law in Boston, Mass., 1945-1950;
professor of political science, Washington University, St. Louis,
Mo., 1952, and of constitutional law 1958; dean of Washington
University College of Liberal Arts, 1961-1962, and chancellor,
1962-1971; vice chairman, United States Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations, 1963-1967; president, Salzburg Seminar
in American Studies, 1971-1977; teacher, Buckingham, Browne and
Nichols School, 1977-1985; was a resident of Cambridge, Mass.,
until his death there on October 14, 1991.
Bibliography
Eliot, Thomas H. Recollections of the New Deal: When the People
Mattered. Edited with an introduction by John Kenneth
Galbraith. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992; Eliot,
Thomas H. Public and Personal. Edited by Frank
O’Brien. St. Louis: Washington University Press, 1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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