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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]]. | + | '''Joe Cannon'''' (Joseph Gurney Cannon, 1836 - 1926) was a powerful Republican Congressman from [[Illinois]] and [[Speaker of the House]] from 1903-1911, preceding [[James Beauchamp Clark]] and succeeding [[David Henderson]]. 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]]. |
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Revision as of 08:16, November 25, 2009
Joe Cannon' (Joseph Gurney Cannon, 1836 - 1926) was a powerful Republican Congressman from Illinois and Speaker of the House from 1903-1911, preceding James Beauchamp Clark and succeeding David Henderson. 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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