JENNINGS, William Pat (1919-1994)
Democrat of Virginia 
9th congressional district
Served in House 1955-1966
Biography
Representative from Virginia; born on a farm in St. Clair, Smyth County, Va., August 20, 1919; attended the public schools; B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va., 1941; entered the United States Army in July 1941; served in the United States for two years and in the European Theater of Operations for two and a half years with the Twenty-ninth Infantry as platoon leader, company commander, and operations officer; instructor in ROTC at the University of Illinois; discharged as a major in May 1946; automobile and farm implement dealer in Marion, Va., from 1946 until his death; cattle farmer; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1952, 1956, 1960, and 1968; elected sheriff of Smyth County, Va., in 1947, reelected in 1951, and served until 1954; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966; elected Clerk of the United States House of Representatives to the Ninetieth and to the four succeeding Congresses until his resignation on November 15, 1975 (January 10, 1967-November 15, 1975); president of Slurry Transport Association; was a resident of Marion, Va., until his death there on August 2, 1994; interment in Rose Lawn Cemetery, Marion, Va.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
