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Senate Years of Service: 1918-1921 Party: Democrat
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NUGENT, John Frost, a Senator from Idaho; born in La Grande, Union County, Oreg., June 28, 1868;
attended the public schools; worked in the mines in Idaho and Australia; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1898 and commenced practice in Silver City, Idaho; prosecuting attorney of Owyhee County,
Idaho, 1899-1906; appointed on January 22, 1918, and subsequently elected on November 5, 1918,
as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James H. Brady
and served from January 22,1918, until his resignation, effective January 14, 1921; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1920 to the United States Senate; chairman, Committee on Fisheries
(Sixty-fifth Congress); appointed by President Woodrow Wilson a member of the Federal Trade
Commission 1921-1927; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1926 to the United States Senate;
resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; died in Silver Spring, Md., September 18, 1931;
interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Schlup, Leonard. The Faithful Acolyte: Senator John F. Nugent and the Question of Membership in
the League of Nations. Idaho Yesterdays 40 (Summer 1996): 11-17.
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