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IGOE, William Leo, a Representative from Missouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., on October
19, 1879; attended the public and parochial schools of St. Louis and was
graduated from the law department of Washington University at St. Louis in
1902; was admitted to the bar in the same year and commenced the practice of
law in St. Louis; member of the municipal assembly of St. Louis from 1909 until
March 3, 1913, when he resigned to enter Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3,
1921); declined to become a candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed the
practice of law; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for mayor of St. Louis in
1925; chairman of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners 1933-1937; died
in St. Louis, Mo., April 20, 1953; interment in Calvary Cemetery.
BibliographyThompson, Alice Anne. The Life and Career of William L. Igoe,
The Reluctant Boss, 1879-1953. Ph.D. dissertation, St. Louis University,
1980.
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