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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriRoger Caldwell SLAUGHTER
(1905-1974)
SLAUGHTER, Roger Caldwell,
a Representative from Missouri; born near Odessa, Lafayette County,
Mo., July 17, 1905; attended the public schools at Independence,
Mo.; A.B., Princeton University, 1928; read law in the office of
Hon. Henry L. Jost, Kansas City, Mo., and attended the Kansas City
School of Law; was admitted to the bar in 1932 and commenced
practice in Kansas City; served as assistant prosecutor of Jackson
County, Mo., 1932-1936; member of the board of directors of the
school district of Kansas City, Mo., 1940-1942; elected as a
Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the Seventy-ninth Congresses
(January 3, 1943-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; member, State
Democratic Committee, 1960-1962; resumed the practice of law in
Kansas City, Mo.; appointed magistrate judge of Lafayette County in
1972; died, June 2, 1974, on his farm near Odessa, Mo.; interment
in Greenton Cemetery, Odessa, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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