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Senate Years of Service: 1925-1933 Party: Democrat
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New Mexico Historical Society |
BRATTON, Sam Gilbert, a Senator from New Mexico; born in Kosse, Limestone County, Tex.,
August 19, 1888; attended the public schools; graduated from State Normal
School and taught school for several years at Claude and Hereford, Tex.;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Farwell,
Parmer County, Tex.; moved to Clovis, N.Mex., in 1915 and continued the
practice of law; judge of the district court for the fifth judicial district of
New Mexico 1919-1921, when, this district being divided, he became judge of the
ninth judicial district 1921-1923; associate justice of the supreme court of
New Mexico 1923-1924, when he resigned to accept the nomination for Senator;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1924; reelected in 1930
and served from March 4, 1925, until his resignation, effective June 24, 1933;
chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-third Congress);
resigned to accept an appointment as circuit judge of the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Judicial Circuit 1933-1961; died in Albuquerque,
N.Mex., September 22, 1963; interment in Fairview Park Cemetery.
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