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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriCourtney Walker HAMLIN
(1858-1950)
HAMLIN, Courtney Walker,
(cousin of William Edward Barton), a Representative from Missouri;
born in Brevard, Transylvania County, N.C., October 27, 1858; in
1869 moved to Missouri with his parents, who settled in Leasburg,
Crawford County; attended the common schools and Salem (Mo.)
Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced
practice in Bolivar, Polk County, Mo.; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress;
elected to the Sixtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1907-March 3, 1919); chairman, Committee on Expenditures
in the Department of State (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918;
resumed the practice of law in Springfield, Greene County, Mo.,
until November 1935, when he retired and moved to Santa Monica,
Calif., where he died February 16, 1950; interment in East Lawn
Cemetery, Springfield, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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