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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaLouis Leon LUDLOW
(1873-1950)
LUDLOW, Louis Leon, a
Representative from Indiana; born on a farm near Connersville,
Fayette County, Ind., June 24, 1873; attended the grade and high
schools; moved to Indianapolis, Ind., in 1892 and became a reporter
and later a political writer; Washington correspondent for Indiana
and Ohio newspapers and member of the Congressional Press Galleries
1901-1929; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and to the
nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-January 3, 1949);
election to the Seventy-first Congress was unsuccessfully contested
by Ralph E. Updike; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948 to
the Eighty-first Congress; resumed work as a newspaper
correspondent until his death in Washington, D.C., November 28,
1950; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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