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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriOrville ZIMMERMAN
(1880-1948)
ZIMMERMAN, Orville, a
Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near Glenallen,
Bollinger County, Mo., December 31, 1880; attended the public
schools and Mayfield-Smith Academy, Marble Hill, Mo.; was graduated
from the Southeast Missouri State College at Cape Girardeau in 1904
and from the law department of the University of Missouri at
Columbia in 1911; principal of Dexter (Mo.) High School 1904-1908;
was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commenced practice in Kennett,
Mo.; during the First World War served as a private in the United
States Army in 1918; member of the board of education of Kennett,
Mo., 1928-1936; member of the board of regents of Southeast
Missouri State College 1933-1948; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from
January 3, 1935, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 7,
1948; interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Kennett, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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