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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeLawrence Davis TYSON
(1861-1929)
Senate Years of Service:
1925-1929Party: DemocratTYSON, Lawrence Davis, a
Senator from Tennessee; born on a farm near Greenville, Pitt
County, N.C., July 4, 1861; attended the county schools and
Greenville Academy, and graduated from the United States Military
Academy at West Point in 1883; took part in campaigns against the
Apache Indians; professor of military science and tactics in the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville 1891-1895, and graduated in
law from that university in 1894; resigned his commission, was
admitted to the bar in 1894, and commenced practice in Knoxville;
volunteered in 1898 for service during the Spanish-American War,
and was appointed colonel of the Sixth Regiment, United States
Volunteer Infantry, which he recruited, trained, and took to Puerto
Rico; was mustered out in 1899; engaged in the practice of law at
Knoxville and later in manufacturing; brigadier general and
inspector general of the National Guard of Tennessee 1902-1908;
member, State house of representatives and served as speaker
1903-1905; was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United
States Senate in 1913; volunteered for service at the outbreak of
the First World War and was commissioned brigadier general in
command of all National Guard troops of Tennessee; later
commissioned by President Woodrow Wilson as a brigadier general and
assigned to the Fifty-ninth Brigade, Thirtieth Division; trained
troops at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S.C.; fought in France and
Belgium and was discharged in 1919; resumed newspaper pursuits; was
an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Vice
President in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in a
sanitarium at Strafford, Pa., on August 24, 1929; interment in Old
Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; U.S. Congress. Memorial
Addresses. 71st Cong., 1st sess., 1929. Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1930.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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