LONGWORTH, Nicholas (1869-1931)
Republican of Ohio 
1st congressional district
Served in House 1903-1913 , 1915-1929
Biography
Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, November 5, 1869; attended the Franklin School in Cincinnati; 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, Ohio, in 1898; member of the Ohio state house of representatives, 1899-1900; member of the Ohio 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, but died before the convening of the Seventy-second Congress (March 4, 1915-March 4, 1931); majority leader (Sixty-eighth Congress), Speaker of the House (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.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Notice: By custom, the Speaker of the House rarely votes. Votes for LONGWORTH, Nicholas may appear to be missing as a result.
