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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaJames Walter KEHOE
(1870-1938)
KEHOE, James Walter, a
Representative from Florida; born in Eufaula, Barbour County, Ala.,
April 25, 1870; attended the common schools; moved to Florida in
1883; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1889 and, being a
minor, was authorized by a special act of the State legislature to
commence practice in Milton, Fla.; member of the State house of
representatives in 1900 but resigned before the legislature
convened; member of the Democratic congressional executive
committee; State’s attorney for the first judicial circuit of
Florida 1900-1909; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth
Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection to the Sixty-sixth Congress in 1918; again State’s
attorney from June 1925 until March 1926, when he resigned; resumed
the practice of law in Miami, Fla.; died in Coral Gables, Fla., on
August 20, 1938; interment in Graceland Park Cemetery, Miami,
Fla.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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