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HALEY, James Andrew, a Representative from Florida; born in Jacksonville, Calhoun County,
Ala., January 4, 1899; attended the public schools and the University of
Alabama; during the First World War enlisted in Troop A, Second Cavalry, in
April 1917 and served overseas; accountant, Sarasota, Fla., 1920-1933; general
manager of John Ringling estate 1933-1943; first vice president of Ringling
Circus 1943-1945 and president and director of Ringling Brothers, Barnum &
Bailey Circus, Sarasota, Fla., 1946-1948; engaged in newspaper publishing and
later in general printing business; chairman of the Democratic executive
committee of Sarasota County 1935-1952; member of the Florida state house of
representatives, 1949-1952; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions,
1952-1960; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the eleven
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1977); chairman, Committee on
Interior and Insular Affairs (Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth Congresses); was
not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976; died on
August 6, 1981, in Sarasota, Fla.; interment in Boca Raton Cemetery, Boca
Raton, Fla.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: James A. Haley, Democratic Representative
from Florida. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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