biography
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Priest, James Percy
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1900–56)
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| biography:
| US representative, born in Carters Creek, Tennessee, USA. A schoolteacher (1920–6) and journalist (1926–40) before going to Congress (Democrat, Tennessee, 1941–56), he served as majority whip (1945–7) and chaired the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. |
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