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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWilliam Leo IGOE
(1879-1953)
IGOE, William Leo, a
Representative from Missouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., on October
19, 1879; attended the public and parochial schools of St. Louis
and was graduated from the law department of Washington University
at St. Louis in 1902; was admitted to the bar in the same year and
commenced the practice of law in St. Louis; member of the municipal
assembly of St. Louis from 1909 until March 3, 1913, when he
resigned to enter Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1913-March 3, 1921); declined to become a candidate for
renomination in 1920; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful
Democratic nominee for mayor of St. Louis in 1925; chairman of the
St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners 1933-1937; died in St.
Louis, Mo., April 20, 1953; interment in Calvary Cemetery.
Bibliography
Thompson, Alice Anne. “The Life and Career of William L.
Igoe, The Reluctant Boss, 1879-1953.” Ph.D. dissertation, St.
Louis University, 1980.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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