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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—UtahTHOMAS, Elbert Duncan
(1883—1953)
Senate Years of Service:
1933-1951
Party:
Democrat
THOMAS, Elbert Duncan, a Senator from Utah; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 17, 1883; attended the public schools; graduated from the University of Utah at Salt Lake City in 1906 and from the graduate department of the University of California, Berkeley 1924; served as a missionary of the Church of Latter Day Saints in Japan 1907-1912; student traveler in Asia and Europe 1912-1913; instructor of Latin and Greek at the University of Utah 1914-1916 and secretary of board of regents 1917-1922; served as major, inspector general’s department, Utah National Guard, and United States Reserves 1917-1926; professor of political science at the University of Utah 1924-1933; author; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932; reelected in 1938 and again in 1944 and served from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1951; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-eighth Congresses), Committee on Military Affairs (Seventy-ninth Congress), Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (Eighty-first Congress); appointed high commissioner of United States trust territories of the Pacific and served from 1951, until his death in Honolulu, Hawaii, February 11, 1953; interment in City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Libby, Justin H. “Senators King and Thomas and the Coming War with Japan.” Utah Historical Quarterly
42 (Fall 1974): 370-80; Thomas, Elbert D. “The Senate During and Since the War.” Parliamentary Affairs
3 (Winter 1949): 114-26.
Goldberg, Joyce S. “FDR, Elbert D. Thomas, and American Neutrality.” Mid-America
68 (January 1986): 35-50.
Libby, Justin H. “Senators King and Thomas and the Coming War with Japan.” Utah Historical Quarterly
42 (Fall 1974): 370-80.
Smith, Sharon Kay. “Elbert D. Thomas and America’s Response to the Holocaust.” Ph.D. dissertation, Brigham Young University, 1992.
Thomas, Elbert Duncan. Chinese Political Thought: A Study Based Upon the Theories of the Principal Thinkers of the Chou Period
. 1927. Reprint. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968.
___. The Four Fears
. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1944.
___. “How Congress Functions Under Its Reorganization Act.” American Political Science Review
43 (December 1949): 1179-89.
___. “The Senate During and Since the War.” Parliamentary Affairs
3 (Winter 1949): 114-26.
___. This Nation Under God
. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950.
___. Thomas Jefferson, World Citizen
. New York: Modern Age Books, 1942.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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