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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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JENNINGS, William Pat, a Representative from Virginia; born on a farm in St. Clair, Smyth
County, Va., August 20, 1919; attended the public schools; B.S., Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va., 1941; entered the United States Army in
July 1941; served in the United States for two years and in the European
Theater of Operations for two and a half years with the Twenty-ninth Infantry
as platoon leader, company commander, and operations officer; instructor in
ROTC at the University of Illinois; discharged as a major in May 1946;
automobile and farm implement dealer in Marion, Va., from 1946 until his death;
cattle farmer; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1952, 1956, 1960, and
1968; elected sheriff of Smyth County, Va., in 1947, reelected in 1951, and
served until 1954; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the five
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955–January 3, 1967); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; elected Clerk of
the House of Representatives for the Ninetieth Congress and for the four
succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation on November 15, 1975
(January 10, 1967–November 15, 1975); president of Slurry Transport
Association; was a resident of Marion, Va., until his death there on August 2,
1994; interment in Rose Lawn Cemetery, Marion, Va.
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