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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaWilliam Joseph SEARS
(1874-1944)
SEARS, William Joseph, a
Representative from Florida; born in Smithville, Lee County, Ga.,
December 4, 1874; moved with his parents to Ellaville, Ga., and
thence to Kissimmee, Osceola County, Fla., in January 1881;
attended the public schools; was graduated from Florida State
College at Lake City in 1895 and from Mercer University, Macon,
Ga., in 1896; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1905 and
commenced practice in Kissimmee, Fla.; mayor of Kissimmee
1907-1911; superintendent of public instruction of Osceola County
1905-1915; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and to the six
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1929); chairman,
Committee on Education (Sixty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1928; resumed the practice of his
legal profession at Kissimmee, Fla.; moved to Jacksonville, Fla.,
and continued the practice of law; elected to the Seventy-third and
Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); was an
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936; associate member
of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals of the Veterans’
Administration in Washington, D.C., from 1937 until his retirement
in October 1942; died in Kissimmee, Fla., March 30, 1944; interment
in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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