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Senate Years of Service: 1925-1931 Party: Republican
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DENEEN, Charles Samuel, a Senator from Illinois; born in Edwardsville, Madison County, Ill., May 4, 1863;
raised in Lebanon, St. Clair County, Ill.; attended the public schools, and graduated from McKendree
College, Lebanon, Ill., in 1882; later studied law at the same college and at Union College of Law
(later Northwestern University), Chicago, Ill.; admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in
Chicago; member, State house of representatives 1892; attorney for the Chicago Sanitary District
1895-1896; States attorney for Cook County, Ill., 1896-1904; Governor of Illinois 1905-1913;
resumed the practice of law in Chicago; appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate on
February 26, 1925, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Medill McCormick in the term ending
March 3, 1925; had been previously elected in 1924 for the term commencing March 4, 1925, and
served from February 26, 1925, to March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930;
chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Seventieth and Seventy-first
Congresses); resumed the practice of law; died in Chicago, Ill., February 5, 1940; interment in Oak
Woods Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Miller,
Kristie. Ruth Hanna McCormick and the Senatorial Election of 1930. Illinois Historical
Journal 81 (Autumn 1988): 191-210.
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