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Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836 - 1926) was a Representative from Illinois; 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
• Unsuccessful candidate 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
• Unsuccessful candidate 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)
• 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

References

• http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp