Joseph Wellington Byrns
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Joseph Wellington Byrns, (father of Joseph Wellington Byrns, Jr.), a Representative from Tennessee; born near Cedar Hill, Robertson County, Tenn., July 20, 1869
- Attended the common schools
- Was graduated from Nashville High School in 1887 and from the law department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1890
- Was admitted to the bar in 1890 and commenced the practice of law in Nashville
- Member of the State house of representatives, 1895-1901
- Member of the State senate in 1901-1903
- Unsuccessful candidate for district attorney general of Davidson County in 1902
- Elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until his death; chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Seventy-second Congress)
- Majority leader (Seventy-third Congress), Speaker of the House of Representatives (Seventy-fourth Congress)
- Chairman of the Democratic National Congressional Campaign Committee 1928-1930
- Was a nominee for reelection to the Seventy-fifth Congress at the time of his death
- Died in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 1936; funeral services were held in the Hall of the House of Representatives
- Interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
