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Senate Years of Service: 1919-1922 Party: Republican
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NEWBERRY, Truman Handy, (son of John Stoughton Newberry),
a Senator from Michigan; born in Detroit, Mich., November 5, 1864; attended
public and private schools; graduated from Yale College in 1885; superintendent of construction,
paymaster, general freight and passenger agent, and eventually manager of the Detroit, Bay City &
Alpena Railway 1885-1887; president and treasurer of the Detroit Steel & Spring Co. 1887-1901;
engaged in various other manufacturing activities; organizer of the Michigan State Naval Brigade;
served in the Navy during the Spanish-American War; Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1905-1908;
Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt 1908-1909; lieutenant
commander United States Navy Fleet Reserve in 1917 and assistant to the commandant third naval
district of New York until 1919; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from
March 4, 1919, until his resignation on November 18, 1922; in 1921, Newberry was tried and
convicted of election irregularities; the conviction was reversed by the Supreme Court, and,
following an investigation, the Senate declared Newberry entitled to his seat but expressed disapproval
of the sum spent on his election; in the face of a new movement to unseat him, Newberry resigned;
engaged in manufacturing; died in Grosse Pointe, Mich., October 3, 1945; interment in Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Ervin, Spencer. Henry Ford vs. Truman H.
Newberry: The Famous Senate Election Contest. 1935. Reprint. New York: Arno Press,
1974.
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