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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—West VirginiaRush Dew HOLT
(1905-1955)
Senate Years of Service:
1935-1941Party: DemocratHOLT, Rush Dew, (father of
Rush Holt), a Senator from West Virginia; born in Weston, Lewis
County, W.Va., June 19, 1905; attended the public schools and West
Virginia University at Morgantown; graduated from Salem (W.Va.)
College in 1924; became a high school teacher and athletic coach;
instructor at Salem (W.Va.) College and Glenville (W.Va.) State
Teachers’ College; member, State house of delegates
1931-1935; member of the United States delegation to the
Interparliamentary Conference, Oslo, Norway, in 1939; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate on November 6, 1934, for the
term beginning January 3, 1935, but not having reached the age
qualification required by the Constitution did not take his seat
until June 21, 1935, and served until January 3, 1941; unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1940; elected to the State house of
delegates in 1942, 1944, 1946, and 1948; unsuccessful candidate for
the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1944 and for the 1948
Democratic nomination for United States Senator; engaged in
research work; changed party affiliation in 1949 and was an
unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to the Eighty-second
Congress in 1950, and for election as Governor in 1952; elected to
the State house of delegates in 1954 and served until his death;
died in Bethesda, Md., February 8, 1955; interment in Macpelah
Cemetery, Weston, W.Va.
Bibliography
Coffey, William. “Rush Dew Holt, The Boy Senator from West
Virginia.” Ph.D. dissertation, West Virginia University,
1970; Coode, Thomas H., and Agnes H. Riggs. “The Private
Papers of West Virginia’s Boy Senator, Rush Drew Holt.”
West Virginia History 35 (July 1974): 296-318.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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