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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeFinis James GARRETT
(1875-1956)
GARRETT, Finis James, a
Representative from Tennessee; born near Ore Springs, Weakley
County, Tenn., August 26, 1875; attended the common schools and
Clinton (Ky.) College; graduated from Bethel College, McKenzie,
Tenn., 1897; newspaper editor; teacher; lawyer, private practice;
appointed master in chancery September 14, 1900-January 24, 1905;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1924; elected as
a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth and to the eleven succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1929); chairman, Committee on
Insular Affairs (Sixty-fifth Congress); minority leader
(Sixty-eighth through Seventieth Congresses); was not a candidate
for renomination to the Seventy-first Congress in 1928, but was an
unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United
States Senator; appointed judge of the United States Court of
Customs and Patent Appeals, 1929-1937; presiding judge of the
United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1937-1955; died
on May 25, 1956, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Sunset Cemetery,
Dresden, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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