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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJohn JENNINGS, Jr.
(1880-1956)
JENNINGS, John, Jr., a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Jacksboro, Campbell County,
Tenn., June 6, 1880; attended the public schools and American
Temperance University, Harriman, Tenn.; was graduated from U.S.
Grant University, Athens, Tenn., in 1906; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice in Jellico, Campbell
County, Tenn.; served as county superintendent of public
instruction, Campbell County, Tenn., in 1903 and 1904; county
attorney of Campbell County 1911-1918; delegate to the Republican
National Conventions in 1912, 1936, and 1944; special assistant to
the Attorney General of the United States in 1918 and 1919; served
as judge of the second chancery division of Tennessee from
September 1, 1918, until his resignation July 1, 1923; moved to
Knoxville, Tenn., in 1923 and continued the practice of law;
elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of J. Will Taylor; reelected to the
Seventy-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses and served
from December 30, 1939, to January 3, 1951; unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; resumed the
practice of law; died in Knoxville, Tenn., February 27, 1956;
interment in Highland Memorial Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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