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Senate Years of Service: 1937-1938 Party: Democrat
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BERRY, George Leonard, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Lee Valley, Hawkins County, Tenn., September
12, 1882; attended the common schools; employed as a pressman from 1891 to 1907 in various cities;
served during the First World War in the American Expeditionary Forces, with the rank of major, in
the Railroad Transportation Engineers 1918-1919; president of the International Pressmen and
Assistants Union of North America 1907-1948; also engaged in agricultural pursuits and banking;
delegate to many national and international labor conventions; appointed on May 6, 1937, as a
Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nathan L. Bachman
and served from May 6, 1937, to November 8, 1938, when a successor was elected; unsuccessful
candidate for nomination in 1938 to fill the vacancy; resumed the presidency of the International
Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America, and also his agricultural pursuits at Pressmens
Home, Tenn., until his death on December 4, 1948; interment in Pressmens Home Cemetery.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Spencer, Thomas T. Printer and Politician: The Political Career of George L. Berry, 1907-1948. Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Fall 1997): 213-229; Berry, George L. Labor Conditions Abroad. Rogersville, TN: Technical Trade School, Printing Pressman and
Assistants Union, 1913.
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