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Senate Years of Service: 1928-1937 Party: Republican
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HASTINGS, Daniel Oren, a Senator from Delaware; born near Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md., March
5, 1874; was educated under private tutorship; moved to Wilmington, Del., in 1894; attended the law
department of Columbian (now George Washington) University, Washington, D.C.; admitted to the
bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Wilmington, Del.; served as deputy attorney general of
Delaware 1904-1909; appointed secretary of State of Delaware, January 1909 to June 1909, when
he resigned, having been appointed an associate justice of the State supreme court, in which capacity
he served until his resignation in January 1911; special counsel for the State legislature in 1911; city
solicitor of Wilmington 1911-1917; judge of the municipal court of Wilmington 1920-1929; member
of the Republican National Committee; appointed as a Republican on December 10, 1928, and
elected on November 4, 1930, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending March
3, 1931, caused by the resignation of T. Coleman du Pont; on the same day was also elected for the
term commencing March 4, 1931, and served from December 10, 1928, to January 2, 1937;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936; resumed the practice of law in Wilmington, Del., where
he died May 9, 1966; interment in Lower Brandywine Cemetery.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography.
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