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BRIGGS, Clay Stone

BRIGGS, Clay Stone
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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BRIGGS, Clay Stone
1876–1933

Office

Representative

State/Territory

Texas

Party

Democrat

Congress(es)

66th (1919–1921), 67th (1921–1923), 68th (1923–1925), 69th (1925–1927), 70th (1927–1929), 71st (1929–1931), 72nd (1931–1933), 73rd (1933–1935)

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Concise Biography

BRIGGS, Clay Stone, A Representative from Texas; born in Galveston, Tex., January 8, 1876; attended private and public schools, the University of Texas at Austin, and Harvard Unversity; was graduated from the law department of Yale University in 1899; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in Galveston, Tex.; member of the State house of representatives 1906-1908; served as judge of the tenth judicial district of Texas from June 15, 1909, until February 1, 1919, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 29, 1933; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

Duke University Library

Durham, NC
Papers: 1919, 32 items. The papers document Clay Stone Briggs's first year in office. Material pertains to problems following World War I, the national banking system, the national budget, and Democratic politics in 1918.

University of Texas at Austin
Center for American History

Austin, TX
Papers: 1901-1930, approximately 3 linear feet. The papers of Clay Stone Briggs contain constituent requests and congressional legislation relating to the erection of Federal buildings in Texas, protective tariffs, shipping industry, state highways, U.S. citizens held prisoner in Mexico, and passports and immigration. A finding aid is available in the repository.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

United States. Congress (73rd, 2d session : 1934) House. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Clay Stone Briggs, late a Representative from Texas. Seventy-third Congress, second session. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1934.

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