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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilliam Cannon HOUSTON
(1852-1931)
HOUSTON, William Cannon, a
Representative from Tennessee; born near Shelbyville, Bedford
County, Tenn., March 17, 1852; moved with his mother to Woodbury,
Cannon County, Tenn., in 1858; attended the schools of Woodbury and
Sweetwater, Tenn.; engaged in agricultural pursuits and later in
the publication of a newspaper; member of the State house of
representatives 1877-1879 and 1881-1885; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice in Woodbury, Tenn.;
member of the Democratic State executive committee in 1888;
chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1888; elected judge
of the eighth judicial circuit in 1894, was reelected in 1902, and
served until elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1905-March 3, 1919); chairman, Committee on the Census
(Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Territories (Sixty-third
through Sixty-fifth Congresses); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1918; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1920; died on his plantation, “Beaver
Dam,” near Woodbury, Tenn., August 30, 1931; interment in
Riverside Cemetery, near Woodbury, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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