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House ^representatives: In 12 he was elected to the United States house ^Representatives Representatives, and on March 4, 1913, began long service in the house ^Representatives. In the latter year was elected to the house ^Representatives Interstate and For-;n Commerce Committee, and from 1931 to 1937
•ved as chairman of that committee. During World War I, for the benefit of Amer-.n servicemen, he composed the War Risk In-
•ance Act. In 1921 he became chairman of the:mocratic party caucus.
The electoral vote for Nixon was 219; for Kennedy, 303. In the house ^Representatives, Republicans won 174 seats; in the Senate, 36.
In the midterm election of 1962, Republicans won 176 seats in the house ^Representatives, lost 4 in the Senate (for a total of 32), and won 17 governorships. Significant gains were the election of attractive gubernatorial candidates in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Oklahoma. GOP votes in the South for the house ^Representatives of Representatives rose from 606,000 in 1958 to 2,084,000 in 1962—a growth of 244 percent. In 1961, Texas sent its first Republican to the U S. Senate.
Elected speaker of the house ^Representatives of Representatives in 1876, he did much to codify its rules before the Republicans returned to power in 1881. With the house ^Representatives once more in Democratic hands in 1883, he resumed his chairmanship of the Committee on Appropriations. His consistent advocacy of a protective tariff eventually cost him the support of President Grover Cleveland, however, and in 1888 he lost control of the Pennsylvania Democratic organization. Thereafter his influence in Congress was slight. |
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