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Senate Years of Service: 1917-1953 Party: Democrat
McKELLAR, Kenneth Douglas, a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born in Richmond,
Dallas County, Ala., January 29, 1869; received private instruction from his
parents and his sister; graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
in 1891 and from its law department in 1892; moved to Tennessee in 1892 and
settled in Memphis; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the
practice of law; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1904; elected
on November 7, 1911, as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of George W. Gordon; reelected to the Sixty-third
and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from December 4, 1911, to March 3, 1917;
did not seek renomination, having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1916; reelected in 1922, 1928, 1934,
1940, and 1946 and served from March 4, 1917, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1952; served as President pro tempore of the
Senate during the Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses;
chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Sixty-fifth Congress),
Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth
Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (Seventy-ninth through Eighty-second
Congresses); retired; died in Memphis, Tenn., October 25, 1957; interment in
Elmwood Cemetery.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; McKellar,
Kenneth.
Tennessee Senators As Seen By One of Their Successors.
Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers,, 1942; Pope, Robert Dean. Senatorial
Baron: The Long Political Career of Kenneth C. McKellar. Ph.D. dissertation,
Yale University, 1975.
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