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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWilliam Leonard HUNGATE
(1922-2007)
HUNGATE, William Leonard,
a Representative from Missouri; born in Benton, Franklin County,
Ill., December 14, 1922; graduated from Bowling Green High School,
Bowling Green, Mo., 1929; attended the public schools, Central
Methodist College, Fayette, Mo. and the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor; Mich.; A.B., University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., 1943;
LL.B., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., 1948; J.D., Harvard
Law School, Cambridge, Mass., 1969; United States Army, 1943-1946;
received Combat Infantry Badge and Bronze Star; was admitted to the
bar in 1948; lawyer, private practice; prosecuting attorney of
Lincoln County, Mo, 1951-1956; special assistant attorney general,
1958-1964; elected simultaneously as a Democrat to the
Eighty-eighth and to the Eighty-ninth Congress by special election,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States
Representative Clarence Cannon, and reelected to the five
succeeding Congresses (November 3, 1964-January 3, 1977); was not a
candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976;
professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Mo., 1977-1979;
justice, United States district judge for the eastern district of
Missouri, 1979-1992; president, American Bar Association’s
National Conference of Federal Trial Judges, 1985-1986; died on
June 22, 2007, St. Louis County, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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