biography
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| lived:
| (1858–1946)
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| biography:
| US senator, representative, and newspaper publisher, born in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. Starting at 14 as a printer's assistant on his father's newspaper, he became an editor, and by 1895 owned three newspapers. An active Democrat, he served in the Virginia Senate and then in the US House of Representatives (1902–18). He was secretary of the Treasury (1918–20), leaving to fill a vacancy in the US Senate, where he served until his death. A fiscal conservative and a defender of states' rights, he often opposed ‘New Deal’ legislation, but he supported the League of Nations and the US role in World War 2. |
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