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 Portrait Artist: Eben Comins
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Tenure: December 9, 1930 to March 4, 1933
From Virginia; high school and business college education.
Worked as a railroad trainman; active in and rose to vice president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; edited the union's magazine.
Appointed by Herbert Hoover. Worked to cope with the
catastrophe of the Great Depression. In collaboration with his predecessor,
then-Senator Davis, worked for the passage of the Davis-Bacon Act to require
that workers on federal construction projects be paid the prevailing wage for
the area.
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