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FLOOD, Henry De La Warr, (brother of Joel West Flood and uncle of Harry Flood
Byrd),
a Representative from Virginia; born in Eldon, Appomattox County,
Va., September 2, 1865; attended the public schools of Appomattox and Richmond,
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and the University of Virginia
at Charlottesville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced
practice in Appomattox, Va.; member of the Virginia state house of delegates,
1887-1891; member of the Virginia state senate, 1891-1903; elected prosecuting
attorney for Appomattox County, 1891, 1895, and 1899; unsuccessful candidate
for election to the Fifty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-seventh and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served until his death
(March 4, 1901-December 8, 1921); chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs
(Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Territories
(Sixty-second Congress); author of the resolutions declaring a state of war to
exist between the United States and the Imperial German Government and with the
Imperial Austro-Hungarian Government; died on December 8, 1921, in Washington,
D.C.; interment in a mausoleum on the courthouse green at Appomattox, Va.
BibliographyKaufman, Burton Ira. Henry De La Warr Flood: A Case Study of
Organization Politics in An Era of Reform Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1966;
Treon, John A. The Political Career of Henry De La Warr Flood: A Biographical
Sketch, 1865-1921.
Essays in History (University of Virginia) 10 (1964-1965):
44-65.
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