Henry Clarence Dworshak, served from 1946 to 1962

Henry Dworshak, was born in Duluth, Minnesota on August 29, 1894. He attended the public schools there and worked as a printer from 1909 until 1918. During the First World War, Dworshak served overseas as a sergeant in the Fourth Anti-aircraft Machine Gun Battalion. After the war, he came back to be the manager of a printers' supply business in Duluth until1924. He then moved to Burley, Idaho, where he worked as editor and publisher of the Burley Bulletin until 1944.

Dworshak was elected to the United States House of Representatives for the Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, to November 5, 1946. He resigned in November of 1946 to serve as an elected Republican to the United States Senate. He was elected to this position by way of a special election held on November 5, 1946 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Thomas. Dworshak served in the Senate from November 6, 1946 to January 3, 1949. He ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1948.

He was then appointed to the United States Senate and subsequently elected as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bert H. Miller. In 1954 and 1960, he was re-elected and served from October 14, 1949, until his death in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 1962.

Henry Dworshak is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Virginia.

Bibliography

American National Biography; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Henry Clarence Dworshak. 87th Cong., 2nd sess., 1962. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963.

Photos provided by the Idaho State Historical Society.  Biographical information compiled by Congressional Research Service.