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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeLuke LEA
(1879-1945)
Senate Years of Service:
1911-1917Party: DemocratLEA, Luke, (great-grandson
of Luke Lea [1783-1851]), a Senator from Tennessee; born in
Nashville, Tenn., April 12, 1879; attended the public schools;
graduated from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., in 1899
and from the law department of Columbia University, New York City,
in 1903; admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice at
Nashville; founder, editor and publisher of the Nashville
Tennessean; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1911 and served from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1917; unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1916; chairman, Committee on the
Library (Sixty-third Congress), Committee to Audit and Control the
Contingent Expenses (Sixty-fourth Congress); during the First World
War, fought in Europe with an artillery unit and rose to the rank
of colonel; returned to Nashville and resumed newspaper interests;
appointed to the United States Senate in 1929 to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Lawrence D. Tyson, but declined the
appointment; entered into the banking and real estate businesses;
died in Nashville, Tenn., on November 18, 1945; interment in Mount
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Schlup, Leonard.
“Pugnacious Progressive: Senator Luke Lea As a Political
Leader From Tennessee in the Wilson Era.” International
Review of History and Political Science 21 (November 1984):
52-66; Tidwell, Mary Louise Lea. Luke Lea of Tennessee.
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
1993.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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