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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaRaymond Smiley SPRINGER
(1882-1947)
SPRINGER, Raymond Smiley,
a Representative from Indiana; born on a farm in Rush County, near
Dunreith, Ind., April 26, 1882; attended the public schools,
Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., and Butler University,
Indianapolis, Ind.; was graduated from the Indiana Law School at
Indianapolis in 1904; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced
practice in Connersville, Fayette County, Ind.; county attorney of
Fayette County, Ind., 1908-1914; judge of the thirty-seventh
judicial circuit of Indiana 1916-1922; during the First World War
served as a captain of Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division, in 1918;
lieutenant colonel of the Officers’ Reserve Corps 1918-1946;
unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1932 and 1936;
elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four
succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his
death in Connersville, Ind., August 28, 1947; interment in Dale
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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