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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NevadaPITTMAN, Key
(1872—1940)
Senate Years of Service:
1913-1940
Party:
Democrat
PITTMAN, Key, a Senator from Nevada; born in Vicksburg, Warren County, Miss., September 12, 1872; educated by private tutors and at the Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tenn.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Seattle, Wash.; joined in the gold rush to Klondike, Alaska, in 1897 and worked as a miner until 1901; practiced law in Alaska; moved to the silver boom-town of Tonopah, Nev., in 1902 and continued the practice of law; appointed to represent the State of Nevada at the St. Louis Exposition, the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and the irrigation congress; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1910; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1913 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George S. Nixon; reelected in 1916, 1922, 1928 and 1934 and served from January 29, 1913, until his death; had been reelected in 1940 for the term beginning January 3, 1941; served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate during the Seventy-third through Seventy-sixth Congresses; chairman, Committee on Territories (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Industrial Expositions (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Seventy-third through Seventy-sixth Congresses); died in Reno, Nev., November 10, 1940; interment in Mountain View Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Glad, Betty. Key Pittman: The Tragedy of a Senate Insider
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986; Israel, Fred. Nevada’s Key Pittman
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963.
Brennan, John A. “The Politics of Silver in the New Deal: Pittman, Roosevelt, and the Domestic-Silver Subsidy, 1933.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
14 (Fall 1971): 5-18.
Cole, Wayne S. “Senator Key Pittman and American Neutrality Policies, 1933-1940.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review
46 (March 1960): 644-62.
Glad, Betty. Key Pittman: The Tragedy of a Senate Insider
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
Israel, Fred L. “The Fulfillment of Bryan’s Dream: Key Pittman and Silver Politics, 1918-1933.” Pacific Historical Review
30 (November 1961): 359-80.
___. “Key Pittman and New Deal Politics.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
14 (Fall 1971): 19-25.
___. Nevada’s Key Pittman
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963.
Libby, Justin H. “The Irreconcilable Conflict: Key Pittman and Japan During the Interwar Years.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
18 (Fall 1975): 129-39.
Pittman, Key. “The United States and Russia—Obstacles to Recognition of Present Soviet Régime.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
126 (July 1926): 131-33.
Porter, David L. “Key Pittman and the Monetary Act of 1939.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
21 (Fall 1978): 205-13.
Sewall, Arthur F. “Key Pittman and the Quest for the China Market, 1933-1940.” Pacific Historical Review
46 (August 1975): 351-71.
___. “Key Pittman, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and American Foreign Policy, 1933-1940.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1974.
Smith, Harold T. “Pittman, Creel, and New Deal Politics.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
22 (Winter 1979): 254-70.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Key Pittman, Late a Senator from Nevada
. 77th Cong., 1st sess., 1941-1942. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1942.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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