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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OklahomaManuel HERRICK
(1876-1952)
HERRICK, Manuel, a
Representative from Oklahoma; born in Perry, Tuscarawas County,
Ohio, September 20, 1876; moved with his parents to Greenwood
County, Kans., in 1877; was self-educated; engaged in agricultural
pursuits; settled in the “Cherokee Strip,” Oklahoma, in
1893; moved to Perry, Okla., and became interested in agriculture
and stock raising; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh
Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate in
1922 for renomination; became a resident of California in 1933 and
of Plumas County, Calif., in 1937; disappeared during a Sierra
blizzard January 11, 1952, while on a trip to his mining claim
eight miles northeast of Quincy, Calif., and was found dead in a
snowbank two miles from his cabin on February 29, 1952; remains
were cremated and the ashes interred in Quincy Cemetery, Quincy,
Calif.
Bibliography
Aldrich, Gene. Okie Jesus Congressman (The Life of Manuel
Herrick). Oklahoma City: Times-Journal Publishing Co.,
1974.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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