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Senate Years of Service: 1949-1951 Party: Democrat
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CHAPMAN, Virgil Munday, a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born in Middleton, Simpson
County, Ky., on March 15, 1895; attended the public schools of Franklin, Ky.; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1917; graduated from the law department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington in
1918 and commenced practice at Irvine, Estill County, Ky., in 1918; city attorney of Irvine
1918-1920; moved to Paris, Ky., in 1920 and continued the practice of law; assisted in organizing the
tobacco growers of Kentucky and nearby States into cooperative marketing associations 1921-1923;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the
eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1949); elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1948 and served from January 3, 1949, until his death in the naval hospital at
Bethesda, Md. following an automobile accident, March 8, 1951; interment in Paris Cemetery, Paris,
Ky.
BibliographyU.S. Congress. Memorial Services For Virgil
Munday Chapman. 82nd Cong., 1st sess., 1951. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office, 1951.
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