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Campaign button, 1928-1934, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
DE PRIEST, Oscar Stanton, a Representative from Illinois; born in Florence, Lauderdale County,
Ala., March 9, 1871; moved to Kansas in 1878 with his parents, who settled in
Salina; attended the public schools and Salina (Kans.) Normal School; engaged
as a painter and decorator; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1889 and became a real
estate broker; member of the board of commissioners of Cook County, Ill.,
1904-1908; member of the city council 1915-1917; elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-January 3,
1935); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth
Congress and for election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; resumed the
real estate business; vice chairman of the Cook County Republican central
committee 1932-1934; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936;
again a member of the city council 1943-1947; died in Chicago, Ill., May 12,
1951; interment in Graceland Cemetery.
BibliographyOscar Stanton De Priest in
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the
direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History
& Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 2008.
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