Joe Cannon
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Joe Cannon' (Joseph Gurney Cannon, 1836 - 1926) was a powerful Republican Congressman from Illinois. He served 23 terms. Progressives led by George Norris in 1910 revolted against his strong rule as Speaker. "Uncle Joe," as he was called, was a leader of the conservative wing of the Republican Party.
Key points of his life include:
- He was born in Guilford, Guilford County, N.C., May 7, 1836
- Moved with his parents to Bloomingdale, Ind., in 1840
- Completed preparatory studies
- Studied law at the Cincinnati Law School
- Was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice in Terre Haute, Ind., in 1858
- Moved to Tuscola, Ill., in 1859
- State’s attorney for the twenty-seventh judicial district of Illinois from March 1861 to December 1868
- Elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1891)
- Chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on Appropriations (Fifty-first Congress)
- Moved to Danville, Ill., in 1878
- Defeated for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress
- Elected to the Fifty-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1913)
- Chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses), Committee on Rules (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses)
- Received fifty-eight votes for the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1908
- Defeated for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress
- Again elected to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1923)
- Was featured on the cover of the first issue of TIME Magazine in 1923.
- Declined renomination for Congress at the end of the Sixty-seventh Congress
- Retired from public life
- Died in Danville, Vermilion County, Ill., November 12, 1926
- Interment in Spring Hill Cemetery
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