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Senate Years of Service: 1946-1946 Party: Democrat
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BURCH, Thomas Granville, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born on a farm near
Dyers Store, in Henry County, Va., July 3, 1869; attended the public schools;
engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the tobacco manufacturing business;
moved to Martinsville, Va., in 1886 and engaged in the banking business; also
interested in the insurance and real estate businesses; member of the State
board of agriculture 1910-1913; mayor of Martinsville, Va. 1912-1914; United
States marshal for the western district of Virginia 1914-1921; member of the
commission in 1927 to simplify and reorganize the State government; served with
the State transportation and public utility advisory commission in 1929; member
of the State board of education in 1930 and 1931; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-second Congress and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4, 1931, to May 31, 1946, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Post
Office and Post Roads (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses); appointed
on May 31, 1946, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Carter Glass and served from May 31, 1946, until November 5, 1946,
when a duly elected successor qualified; was not a candidate for election to
the vacancy in 1946; chairman of Governors Commission on Reorganization of the
State Government in 1947; resumed his business pursuits; died in Martinsville,
Va., March 20, 1951; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
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