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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriSelden Palmer SPENCER
(1862-1925)
Senate Years of Service:
1918-1925Party: RepublicanSPENCER, Selden Palmer, a
Senator from Missouri; born in Erie, Pa., September 16, 1862;
attended the public schools of Erie; graduated from Yale College in
1884 and from the Washington University Law School, St. Louis, Mo.,
in 1886; admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in St.
Louis; professor of medical jurisprudence in the Missouri Medical
College at St. Louis in 1886; member, State house of
representatives 1895-1896; judge of the circuit court of St. Louis
1897-1903; captain in the Missouri Home Guard and chairman of the
draft board 1917-1918; elected on November 5, 1918, as a Republican
to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of William J. Stone; reelected in 1920 and served from November 6,
1918, until his death; chairman, Committee on Claims (Sixty-sixth
and Sixty-seventh Congresses), Committee on Indian Affairs
(Sixty-seventh Congress), Committee on Privileges and Elections
(Sixty-seventh through Sixty-ninth Congresses); died at Walter Reed
Hospital, Washington, D.C., on May 16, 1925; interment in
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
Bibliography
Margulies, Herbert F. “Selden P. Spencer, Senate Moderates
and the League of Nations.” Missouri Historical Review
83 (July 1989): 373-94; Schlup, Leonard. “The Unknown
Senator: Selden Palmer Spencer of Missouri and The League of
Nations.” Research Journal of Philosophy & Social
Sciences (1991): 15-23.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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