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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsSamuel Ellsworth WINSLOW
(1862-1940)
WINSLOW, Samuel Ellsworth,
a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Worcester, Mass.,
April 11, 1862; attended the public schools; was graduated from
Worcester Classical High School in 1880, from Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass., in 1881, and from Harvard University in 1885;
engaged in the manufacture of skates; appointed as a colonel on the
staff of Governor Brackett in 1890; chairman of the Republican city
committee of Worcester 1890-1892; chairman of the Republican State
committee in 1893 and 1894; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and
to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1925);
chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
(Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1924; appointed by President Coolidge in 1926
as a member of the United States Board of Mediation, for the
disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees, and
was subsequently chosen chairman, serving until 1934; moved in 1935
to Worcester, Mass., where he died July 11, 1940; remains were
cremated and the ashes interred in Hope Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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