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IGOE, William Leo (1879-1953)

Democrat of Missouri

11th congressional district

Served in House 1913-1921

Total roll-call votes cast: 879

Biography

Representative from Missouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., on October 19, 1879; attended the public and parochial schools of St. Louis and was graduated from the law department of Washington University at St. Louis in 1902; was admitted to the bar in the same year and commenced the practice of law in St. Louis; member of the municipal assembly of St. Louis from 1909 until March 3, 1913, when he resigned to enter Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1921); declined to become a candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for mayor of St. Louis in 1925; chairman of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners 1933-1937; died in St. Louis, Mo., April 20, 1953; interment in Calvary Cemetery.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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