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\"Ohio Senator\" Simeon D Fess Hand Written Letter Dated 1927:
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Up for sale \"Ohio Senator\" Simeon D Fess Hand Written Letter Dated 1927.ES-9070
Simeon Davison Fess(December 11, 1861– December 23, 1936) was a Republican politician andeducator from Ohio.He served in the United States House ofRepresentatives and U.S. Senate. Born on a farm near Harrod, Ohioto Henry and Barbara (Herring) Fess, he was educated in country schools andgraduated at Ohio Northern University of Adain 1889 and married Eva C. Thomas the following year. After graduation, hetaught history and law at the university as well was working in the universityadministration from 1889-1896. Fess graduated from the law department at ONU in1894 and served as dean of that department from 1896-1900. He then served asvice president of the university 1900-1902. He left for Illinoisto become a graduate student and lecturer at the University of Chicago from 1902-1907. Hethen returned to Ohio and served as the president of AntiochCollege of Yellow Springs from 1907 to 1917. In 1912,while still serving at Antioch College, Fess was a delegate to the stateconstitutional convention as well as being elected as a Republican to the U.S.House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1923 (6th District 1913-15, 7th District 1915-23). Heserved as chairman of the Committee onEducation during the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses and chairman ofthe Republican National CongressionalCommittee from 1918-1922. In 1922 he did not seek re-election, butran for the U.S. Senate and won serving from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1935.He served as chairman of the Committee onthe Library during Sixty-ninth through Seventy-second Congresses and as RepublicanWhip from 1929 to 1933. He also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee 1930-32.Running the GOP during the depths of the Depression was a thankless task. Afterhis appointment, the Cincinnati Enquirer referred to Fess as a \"partywheelhouse and stand patter of the most approved type,\" and added \"Itwas Senator Fess\'s proven ability not only to defend, but to eulogize, the actsof Republican administrations, no matter how unpopular they may be, that led tohis selection as national chairman. Fess campaigned for the reelection ofPresident Herbert Hoover by claiming Hoover was \"the country\'s greatestpeacetime leader,\" a hard sell in the fall of 1932. That speech, a monthbefore the presidential election, was delivered to just 150 listeners, a signof the Republican Party\'s problems in mid-Depression. He was an unsuccessfulcandidate for a third term as Senator in 1934.
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