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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Illinois / USHenry Thomas RAINEY
(1860-1934)
RAINEY, Henry Thomas, a
Representative from Illinois; born in Carrollton, Greene County,
Ill., on August 20, 1860; attended the public schools and Knox
Academy and Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.; was graduated from
Amherst (Mass.) College in 1883 and from the Union College of Law,
Chicago, Ill., in 1885; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and
commenced practice in Carrollton, Ill.; master in chancery for
Greene County, Ill., from 1887 to 1895, when he resigned; elected
as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the eight succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1921); unsuccessfully contested
the election of Guy L. Shaw to the Sixty-seventh Congress; engaged
in agricultural pursuits; elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the
five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his
death; majority leader (Seventy-second Congress), Speaker of the
House of Representatives (Seventy-third Congress); died in St.
Louis, Mo., on August 19, 1934; interment in the Carrollton
Cemetery, Carrollton, Ill.
Bibliography
Waller, Robert A. Rainey of Illinois: A Political Biography,
1903-34. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977; Waller,
Robert A. “The Selection of Henry T. Rainey as Speaker of the
House.” Capital Studies 2 (Spring 1973): 37-47.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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