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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkJohn TABER
(1880-1965)
TABER, John, a
Representative from New York; born in Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y.,
May 5, 1880; attended the public schools; was graduated from Yale
University in 1902 and from New York Law School in 1904; was
admitted to the bar November 15, 1904, and commenced practice in
Auburn, N.Y.; supervisor of Cayuga County in 1905 and 1906; special
judge of the county court 1910-1918; delegate to the Republican
National Conventions in 1920, 1924, and 1936; chairman of the
Cayuga County Republican committee 1920-1925; president of the
Auburn Chamber of Commerce in 1922; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-eighth and to the nineteen succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1923-January 3, 1963); chairman, Committee on Appropriations
(Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; practiced law
in Auburn, N.Y., where he died November 22, 1965; interment in Fort
Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
Henderson, Cary S. “Congressman John Taber of Auburn:
Politics and Federal Appropriations, 1923-1962.” Ph.D. diss.,
Duke University, 1964.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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