biography
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Kenyon, William Squire
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| male
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| lived:
| (1869–1933)
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| biography:
| US senator and judge, born in Elyria, Ohio, USA. A lawyer, he served in the US Senate (Republican, Ohio, 1911–22), where as a progressive he supported labour and the ‘farm bloc’. Appointed a US circuit judge (1922–3), he cancelled the leases that Secretary of Interior Albert Fall had granted in what was known as the Teapot Dome scandal. |
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