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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriMarion Edwards RHODES
(1868-1928)
RHODES, Marion Edwards, a
Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near Glen Allen,
Bollinger County, Mo., January 4, 1868; attended the public schools
and Will Mayfield College; was graduated from the State normal
school at Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1891 and from Stansbury College
in 1893; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1896 and commenced practice in Potosi, Washington County, Mo., in
1898; delegate to all Republican State conventions from 1896 to
1920; prosecuting attorney of Washington County 1900-1904; elected
as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3,
1907); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the
Sixtieth Congress; mayor of Potosi in 1908 and 1909; member of the
State house of representatives 1908-1910; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1908; member of the Missouri
State Board of Law Examiners 1912-1914; elected to the Sixty-sixth
and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923);
chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-seventh Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth
Congress; appointed assistant to the Comptroller General of the
United States at Washington, D.C., and served from April 1, 1923,
until his death in that city, December 25, 1928; interment in the
Masonic Cemetery, Potosi, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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