biography
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Garrett, Finis (James)
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| lived:
| (1875–1956)
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| biography:
| US representative, born in Ore Springs, Tennessee, USA. A newspaperman and lawyer before going to the US House of Representatives (Democrat, Tennessee, 1905–29), he was a fiscal conservative but an internationalist who supported the League of Nations. Deprived of a federal judgeship in 1921 by the Republican majority in Congress, he championed the Democratic party on nationwide speaking tours. He became a judge of the Federal Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (1929–55). |
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