Speaker of the House 69th, 70th, and 71st Congresses
LONGWORTH, Nicholas, (nephew of Bellamy
Storer), a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 5, 1869;
attended the Franklin School in Cincinnati, and was graduated from Harvard
University in 1891; spent one year at Harvard Law School and was graduated from
the Cincinnati Law School in 1894; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced
practice in Cincinnati, Ohio; member of the board of education of Cincinnati in
1898; member of the State house of representatives in 1899 and 1900; served in
the State senate 1901-1903; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to
the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; elected to the
Sixty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,
1915, until his death; majority leader (Sixty-eighth Congress), Speaker of the
House of Representatives (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses); died in
Aiken, S.C., while on a visit, April 9, 1931; interment in Spring Grove
Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bibliography
DAB; De Chambrun, Clara Longworth. The Making of Nicholas Longworth;
Annals of an American Family. New York: Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, Inc.,
1933.
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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