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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriPatrick Francis GILL
(1868-1923)
GILL, Patrick Francis, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Independence, Jackson County,
Mo., August 16, 1868; moved with his widowed mother to St. Louis,
Mo., in 1871; attended the parochial schools and St. Louis
University in 1890; engaged in the grocery business; clerk of the
circuit court 1904-1908; unsuccessful candidate for sheriff in
1906; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first Congress (March 4,
1909-March 3, 1911); successfully contested the election of Theron
E. Catlin to the Sixty-second Congress and served from August 12,
1912, to March 3, 1913; unsuccessful candidate for renomination;
served as mediator in the Bureau of Mediation and Conciliation,
Department of Labor, from July 13, 1918, to September 11, 1922;
died in St. Louis, Mo., May 21, 1923; interment in Calvary
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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