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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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ANTHONY, Daniel Read, Jr., a Representative from Kansas; born in Leavenworth, Kans., August 22,
1870; attended the public schools, the Michigan Military Academy at Orchard
Lake, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; studied law; was admitted to
the bar but did not practice extensively; engaged in newspaper work; appointed
postmaster of Leavenworth, Kans., on June 22, 1898, and served until June 30,
1902, when a successor was appointed; mayor of Leavenworth 1903-1905; became
manager and editor of the Leavenworth Daily Times in 1904; elected as a
Republican to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Charles Curtis; reelected to the Sixty-first and to the nine
succeeding Congresses and served from May 23, 1907, to March 3, 1929; chairman,
Committee on Appropriations (Seventieth Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1928; resumed his former business pursuits; died in
Leavenworth, Kans., August 4, 1931; interment in Mount Muncie Cemetery.
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