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Senate Years of Service: 1946-1949; 1949-1962 Party: Republican; Republican
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DWORSHAK, Henry Clarence, a Representative and a Senator from Idaho; born in Duluth, Minn.,
August 29, 1894; attended the public schools; worked at the printing trade
1909-1918; during the First World War served overseas as a sergeant in the
Fourth Antiaircraft Machine Gun Battalion 1918-1919; manager of printers
supply business in Duluth, Minn., 1920-1924; editor and publisher of the Burley
Bulletin in Burley, Idaho, 1924-1944; elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3,
1939, to November 5, 1946, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate in a special election held on November 5, 1946, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of John Thomas; served from November 6, 1946,
to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948; appointed on
October 14, 1949, to the United States Senate and subsequently elected on
November 7, 1950, as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Bert H. Miller; reelected in 1954 and again in 1960 and served from October 14,
1949, until his death in Washington, D.C., July 23, 1962; interment in
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; U.S. Congress.
Memorial Services for Henry Clarence Dworshak. 87th Cong., 2nd
sess., 1962. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963.
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