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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeKenneth Douglas McKELLAR
(1869-1957)
Senate Years of Service:
1917-1953Party: DemocratMcKELLAR, Kenneth Douglas,
a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born in Richmond,
Dallas County, Ala., January 29, 1869; received private instruction
from his parents and his sister; graduated from the University of
Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1891 and from its law department in 1892;
moved to Tennessee in 1892 and settled in Memphis; admitted to the
bar the same year and commenced the practice of law; presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket in 1904; elected on November 7,
1911, as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of George W. Gordon; reelected to the
Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from December 4,
1911, to March 3, 1917; did not seek renomination, having become a
candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate in 1916; reelected in 1922, 1928, 1934, 1940, and 1946 and
served from March 4, 1917, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1952; served as President pro tempore
of the Senate during the Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first and
Eighty-second Congresses; chairman, Committee on Civil Service and
Retrenchment (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Post Office and
Post Roads (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth Congresses),
Committee on Appropriations (Seventy-ninth through Eighty-second
Congresses); retired; died in Memphis, Tenn., October 25, 1957;
interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; McKellar, Kenneth.
Tennessee Senators As Seen By One of Their Successors.
Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers,, 1942; Pope, Robert Dean.
“Senatorial Baron: The Long Political Career of Kenneth C.
McKellar.” Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1975.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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