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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeLemuel Phillips PADGETT
(1855-1922)
PADGETT, Lemuel Phillips,
a Representative from Tennessee; born in Columbia, Maury County,
Tenn., November 28, 1855; attended private schools in the county,
and was graduated from Erskine College, Due West, S.C., in 1876;
began the study of law in September 1876; was admitted to the bar
in March 1877 and commenced practice in Columbia, Tenn., in January
1879; member of the State senate, 1899-1901; elected as a Democrat
to the Fifty-seventh and to the ten succeeding Congresses and
served from March 4, 1901, until his death in Washington, D.C.,
August 2, 1922; chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Sixty-second
through Sixty-fifth Congresses); interment in Rose Hill Cemetery,
Columbia, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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