De Chambrun, Clara Longworth. The Making of Nicholas Longworth; Annals of an American Family. New York: Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1933. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1971].
LONGWORTH, Nicholas
1869–1931
Biography
LONGWORTH, Nicholas, (nephew of Bellamy Storer), a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 5, 1869; attended the Franklin School in Cincinnati, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1891; spent one year at Harvard Law School and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1894; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio; member of the board of education of Cincinnati in 1898; member of the State house of representatives in 1899 and 1900; served in the State senate 1901-1903; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; elected to the Sixty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death; majority leader (Sixty-eighth Congress), Speaker of the House of Representatives (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses); died in Aiken, S.C., while on a visit, April 9, 1931; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Bulk of papers no longer extant.
Cincinnati Historical Society
Cincinnati, OH
Papers:
1906-1931.
Correspondence, notebooks, speeches, sketches, and scrapbook.
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
Washington, DC
Papers:
1782-1936. ca. 3,000 items.
Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia. Unpublished finding aid in repository. Restricted.
Papers:
In Alice (Roosevelt) Longworth papers, 1890-1946. ca. 3,000 items.
Unpublished finding aid in repository. Restricted.
Papers:
In Theodore Roosevelt papers, 1759-1920. 1,148 containers.
Published index. Also on microfilm (485 reels).
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