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Senate Years of Service: 1944-1981 Party: Democrat
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MAGNUSON, Warren Grant, a Representative and a Senator from Washington; born in Moorhead,
Clay County, Minn., April 12, 1905; attended the public schools, the University
of North Dakota at Grand Forks and North Dakota State College; graduated from
the University of Washington in 1926, and from the law school in 1929; admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Seattle, Wash.; secretary of
the Seattle Municipal League in 1930 and 1931; served as special prosecuting
attorney of King County, Wash., in 1931; member, State house of representatives
1933-1934; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1933; served in
the United States Navy during the Second World War, attaining rank of
lieutenant commander; United States district attorney in 1934 and prosecuting
attorney of King County, Wash., 1934-1936; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-fifth Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from
January 3, 1937, until his resignation on December 13, 1944; appointed to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Homer T.
Bone, and served from December 14, 1944, to January 3, 1945; elected in 1944
for the term commencing January 3, 1945; reelected in 1950, 1956, 1962, 1968
and 1974 and served from December 14, 1944, to January 3, 1981; served as
President pro tempore of the Senate during the Ninety-sixth Congress;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1980; chairman, Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh
Congresses), Committee on Commerce (Eighty-eighth through Ninety-fifth
Congresses), Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (Ninety-fifth
Congress), Committee on Appropriations (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth
Congresses); resumed the practice of law; died in Seattle, Wash., May 20, 1989;
interment in Acacia Memorial Park.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Magnuson, Warren G.,
and Elliot A. Segal. How Much for Health? Washington, D.C.:
R.B. Luce, 1974; Scates, Shelby.
Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century
America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
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