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Senate Years of Service: 1917-1923 Party: Republican
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FRANCE, Joseph Irwin, a Senator from Maryland; born in Cameron, Clinton County, Mo.,
October 11, 1873; attended the common schools and Canandaigua Academy,
Canandaigua, N.Y.; graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1895;
attended the University of Leipzig, Germany; graduated from the medical
department of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 1897; taught natural science,
Jacob Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Md., in 1897; resigned to enter the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., from which he was graduated in
1903; commenced the practice of medicine in Baltimore in 1903; member, State
senate 1906-1908; engaged in finance in 1908; secretary to the medical and
surgical faculty of Maryland 1916-1917; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate in 1916 and served from March 4, 1917, until March 3, 1923;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922; chairman, Committee on Public
Health and National Quarantine (Sixty-fifth Congress); president of the
Republic International Corporation; resumed the practice of medicine in Port
Deposit, Cecil County, Md.; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1934 to the
United States Senate; died in Port Deposit on January 26, 1939; interment in
Hopewell Cemetery, near Port Deposit.
Bibliography France, Royal W.
My Native Grounds. New York: Cameron Associates, 1957;
Geohegan, Sally Ingram. The Political Career of Joseph I. France of Maryland.
Masters thesis, University of Maryland, 1955.
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