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Senate Years of Service: 1911-1923 Party: Democrat
POMERENE, Atlee, a Senator from Ohio; born in Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, December 6, 1863;
attended the common schools and Vermillion Institute, Hayesville, Ohio; graduated from Princeton
College in 1884 and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1886; admitted to the bar in 1886 and
commenced practice in Canton, Ohio; city solicitor 1887-1891; prosecuting attorney of Stark County
1897-1900; Ohio tax commissioner 1906-1908; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor in 1908; elected lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1910 and served from
January until April 1911, when he resigned to assume the duties of United States Senator; elected as
a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1911; reelected in 1916 and served from March 4, 1911,
to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 and again in 1926; chairman,
Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses), Committee
on Privileges and Elections (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Corporations Organized in the
District of Columbia (Sixty-sixth Congress); moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1923 and resumed the
practice of law; delegate representing the United States at the Fifth Pan American Congress in Chile
in 1923; appointed by President Calvin Coolidge in 1924 as special counsel for the United States to
prosecute the Teapot Dome oil fraud cases; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination
for President of the United States in 1928; appointed chairman of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation by President Herbert Hoover 1932-1933; resumed the practice of law in Cleveland,
Ohio, where he died on November 12, 1937; interment in West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; American National Biography; Shriver, Philip Raymond. The Making of a
Moderate Progressive: Atlee Pomerene." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1954.
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