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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkJames Wolcott WADSWORTH, Jr.
(1877-1952)
Senate Years of Service:
1915-1927Party: RepublicanWADSWORTH, James Wolcott,
Jr., (son of James Wadsworth), a Senator and a
Representative from New York; born in Geneseo, N.Y., August 12,
1877; received preparatory education at St. Mark’s School,
Southboro, Mass.; graduated from Yale University in 1898; during
the Spanish-American War served as a private in the Puerto Rican
campaign in 1898; engaged in livestock and agricultural pursuits
near Geneseo, N.Y., and as manager of a ranch in Texas 1911-1915;
member, New York State assembly 1905-1910, serving as speaker
1906-1910; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1914; reelected in 1920 and served from March 4, 1915, to March 3,
1927; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926; chairman,
Committee on Military Affairs (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-ninth
Congresses); Republican whip 1915; resumed agricultural pursuits;
elected to the Seventy-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1933-January 3, 1951); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1950; appointed by President Harry Truman chairman
of the National Security Training Commission in 1951 and served
until his death in Washington, D.C., June 21, 1952; interment in
Temple Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, N.Y.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Fausold, Martin. James W. Wadsworth, Jr.: The
Gentleman From New York. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,
1975; Holthusen, Henry. James W. Wadsworth, Jr.: A Biographical
Sketch. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1926.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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