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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonElton WATKINS
(1881-1956)
WATKINS, Elton, a
Representative from Oregon; born in Newton, Newton County, Miss.,
July 6, 1881; attended the common schools of Mississippi, and Webb
School of Bell Buckle, Tenn.; was graduated from Washington and Lee
University, Lexington, Va., Georgetown University Law School, and
George Washington Law School, Washington, D.C.; employed by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, until 1912, when he moved to
Oregon; was admitted to the Oregon bar the same year and commenced
the practice of law in Portland; prosecutor, Oregon Bar
Association, 1914-1918; assistant United States district attorney
in 1919; during the First World War was again employed by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress;
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United States
Senate in 1930 and for nomination in 1932; unsuccessful candidate
for mayor of Portland in 1932 and in 1940; resumed the practice of
law in Portland, Oreg., until his death there June 24, 1956;
interment in Greenwood Hills Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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