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  Eliot, Thomas H.
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NameThomas H. Eliot
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Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States
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Born June 14, 1907
DiedOctober 14, 1991 (84 years)
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Jan 04, 2015 01:44am
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InfoELIOT, Thomas Hopkinson, (great-grandson of Samuel Atkins Eliot), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Cambridge, Mass., June 14, 1907; attended Browne and Nichols School; was graduated from Harvard University in 1928; student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, in 1928 and 1929; was graduated from the law school of Harvard University in 1932; was admitted to the bar in 1933 and commenced practice in Buffalo, N.Y.; served as assistant solicitor in the United States Department of Labor 1933-1935; general counsel for the Social Security Board 1935-1938; lecturer on government at Harvard University in 1937 and 1938; regional director of the Wage and Hour Division in the Department of Labor in 1939 and 1940; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942 and for nomination in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; director of the British Division, Office of War Information, London, England, and special assistant to the United States Ambassador, 1943; chairman of the appeals committee, National War Labor Board, 1943-1944; served with the Office of Strategic Services in 1944; served as chief counsel, Division of Power, Department of the Interior, from November 1944 to November 1945; engaged in the practice of law in Boston, Mass., 1945-1950; professor of political science, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 1952, and of constitutional law 1958; dean of Washington University College of Liberal Arts, 1961-1962, and chancellor, 1962-1971; vice chairman, United States Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1963-1967; president, Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, 1971-1977; teacher, Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School, 1977-1985; was a resident of Cambridge, Mass., until his death there on October 14, 1991.


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Father Samuel Atkins Eliot II 1862-1950
Grandfather Charles William Eliot 1834-1926
Great-Grandfather Samuel A. Eliot 1798-1862
Uncle Charles W. Eliot 1859-1897

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  07/11/1944 MA District 11 - D Primary Lost 26.95% (-25.19%)
  09/15/1942 MA District 11 - D Primary Lost 40.98% (-14.80%)
  11/05/1940 MA District 9 Won 52.11% (+4.22%)
  11/08/1938 MA District 9 Lost 49.35% (-1.30%)
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