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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriXenophon Pierce WILFLEY
(1871-1931)
Senate Years of Service:
1918-1918Party: DemocratWILFLEY, Xenophon Pierce,
a Senator from Missouri; born near Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.,
March 18, 1871; attended the country schools; graduated from
Clarksburg College in 1891 and from Central College, at Fayette, in
1894; taught in Central College one year and in Sedalia High School
for three years; graduated from the Washington University Law
School at St. Louis, Mo., in 1899 and commenced practice in that
city; chairman of the board of election commissioners of St. Louis
1917-1918; appointed on April 30, 1918, as a Democrat to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William J.
Stone and served from April 30, to November 5, 1918, when a
successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for the nomination to
fill the vacancy in 1918; chairman, Committee on Industrial
Expositions (Sixty-fifth Congress); resumed the practice of his
profession; president of the Missouri Bar Association in 1925; died
in St. Louis, Mo., May 4, 1931; interment in Oak Grove
Cemetery.
Bibliography
White, Edward J., and Xenophon P. Wilfley. Paul of Tarsus: A
Religious Drama in Five Parts. St. Louis: n.p., 1924; Wilfley,
Xenophon Pierce. St. Paul, the Herald of Christianity.
Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1931.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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