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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJames Eli WATSON
(1864-1948)
Senate Years of Service:
1916-1933Party: RepublicanWATSON, James Eli, a
Representative and a Senator from Indiana; born in Winchester,
Randolph County, Ind., November 2, 1864; graduated from De Pauw
University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1886; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in Winchester; moved to
Rushville, Ind., in 1893 and resumed the practice of law; elected
as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March
3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896; elected to
the Fifty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1899-March 3, 1909); was not a candidate for renomination in 1908;
unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor of Indiana in 1908;
resumed the practice of law in Rushville, Ind.; elected on November
7, 1916, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Benjamin F. Shively; reelected in
1920 and 1926, and served from November 8, 1916, to March 3, 1933;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932; majority leader
1929-1933; chairman, Committee on Woman Suffrage (Sixty-sixth
Congress), Committee on Revision of the Laws (Sixty-sixth
Congress), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Sixty-eighth Congress),
Committee on Interstate Commerce (Sixty-ninth and Seventieth
Congresses), Republican Conference (Seventy-first and
Seventy-second Congresses); continued the practice of law in
Washington, D.C., until his death there on July 29, 1948; interment
in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Maryland.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Watson, James Eli. As I Knew Them: Memoirs of
James R. Watson, Former United States Senator from Indiana.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1936.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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