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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJoseph Bernard SHANNON
(1867-1943)
SHANNON, Joseph Bernard, a
Representative from Missouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., March 17,
1867; attended the public schools of St. Louis and Spalding
Business College, Kansas City, Mo.; moved with his parents to
Girard, Kans., in early youth; upon the death of his father moved
to Kansas City, Mo., in 1879; became constable in the justice court
in 1890; was city market-master in 1892 and served two years;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1905 and commenced practice
in Kansas City, Mo.; chairman of the Democratic State committee in
1910; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1908,
1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1940; member of the Missouri
constitutional conventions in 1922 and 1923; elected as a Democrat
to the Seventy-second and the five succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1931-January 3, 1943); was not a candidate for renomination in
1942; died in Kansas City, Mo., March 28, 1943; interment in
Calvary Cemetery.
Bibliography
Blackmore, Charles P. “Joseph B. Shannon, Political Boss and
Twentieth-Century ‘Jeffersonian’.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Columbia University, 1953.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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