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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriCleveland Alexander NEWTON
(1873-1945)
NEWTON, Cleveland
Alexander, a Representative from Missouri; born in Wright
County, Mo., September 3, 1873; attended the common schools and
Drury College at Springfield, Mo.; was graduated from the law
department of the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1902; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Hartville, Mo., the
same year; member of the State house of representatives 1902-1906;
assistant United States attorney for the western district of
Missouri from 1905 to 1907, when he resigned to become assistant
attorney, United States circuit court at St. Louis; resigned this
office in 1911 to become special assistant to the Attorney General
of the United States, which office he resigned in 1912 to resume
the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo.; elected as a Republican to
the Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1927); was not a candidate for renomination in 1926
to the Seventieth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election in
1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; again resumed the practice of
law in St. Louis, Mo., and Washington, D.C.; served as general
counsel of the Mississippi Valley Association 1928-1943; died in
Washington, D.C., on September 17, 1945; interment in Valhalla
Mausoleum, St. Louis, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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