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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeSamuel Davis McREYNOLDS
(1872-1939)
McREYNOLDS, Samuel Davis,
a Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Pikeville,
Bledsoe County, Tenn., April 16, 1872; attended the rural schools,
People’s College, Pikeville, Tenn., and Cumberland
University, Lebanon, Tenn.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1893 and commenced practice at Pikeville; served as assistant
district attorney of the sixth judicial circuit of Tennessee in
1894 and 1896; moved to Chattanooga in 1896 and continued the
practice of law; appointed judge of the criminal court for the
sixth circuit of Tennessee on April 16, 1903; subsequently elected
and twice reelected to the same office and served until February 1,
1923, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as
a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the eight succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death;
chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Seventy-second through
Seventy-sixth Congresses); delegate to the International Monetary
and Economic Conference at London, England, in 1933; died in
Washington, D.C., July 11, 1939; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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