MONRONEY, Almer Stillwell Mike (1902-1980)
Democrat of Oklahoma 
0th congressional district
Served in Senate 1951-1968
Served in House 1939-1951
Biography
A Representative and a Senator from Oklahoma; born in Oklahoma City, Okla., March 2, 1902; attended the public schools and graduated from the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 1924; reporter and political writer for the Oklahoma News 1924-1928; in 1928 became president of a retail furniture store; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress in 1938; reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1951); co-author of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946; was not a candidate for reelection but was elected in 1950 as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1956 and again in 1962, and served from January 3, 1951, to January 3, 1969; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968; chairman, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (Eighty-ninth and Ninetieth Congresses), Special Committee on the Organization of Congress (Eighty-ninth and Ninetieth Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress (Eighty-ninth and Ninetieth Congresses); was an aviation consultant and member of several boards of directors; resided in Washington, D.C.; died in Rockville, Md., February 13, 1980; cremated; part of the ashes placed in a niche in the Washington Cathedral, Washington, D.C., and the remaining ashes scattered on the grounds of the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, Oklahoma City, Okla.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
