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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeThetus Willrette SIMS
(1852-1939)
SIMS, Thetus Willrette, a
Representative from Tennessee; born near Waynesboro, Wayne County,
Tenn., April 25, 1852; attended a private school at Martins Mills;
moved with his parents to Savannah, Hardin County, Tenn., in 1862;
attended Savannah (Tenn.) College and was graduated from the law
department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in June 1876;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Linden, Perry County, Tenn.; superintendent of public instruction
for Perry County, Tenn., 1882-1884; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1897-March 3, 1921); chairman, Committee on War Claims
(Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce (Sixty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed the
practice of law in Lexington, Henderson County, Tenn.; retired from
active business pursuits in 1930 and moved to Washington, D.C.,
where he died December 17, 1939; interment in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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