Allard Henry Gasque (March 8, 1873 – June 17, 1938) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
South Carolina
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from 1923 until his death in June 1938. Following his death, he was succeeded in office by his wife
Elizabeth Hawley Gasque.
Biography
Early life
Born on
Friendfield Plantation, near
Hyman, Marion (now Florence) County, South Carolina, Gasque attended the public schools. He worked on a farm and taught in the country schools for several years. He graduated from the
University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1901.
Career
He was the principal of Waverly Graded School in
Columbia, South Carolina
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from 1901 to 1902. He was elected superintendent of education of Florence County in 1902 and served by reelection until 1923. He served as President of the county superintendents' association of the State in 1911 and 1912 and of the State teachers' association in 1914 and 1915.
He served as member of the Democratic State executive committee from 1912 to 1920. He served as chairman of the Democratic county committee from 1919 to 1923. He was elected as a
Democrat
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to the
Sixty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death in
Washington, D.C.
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, on June 17, 1938. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Pensions (Seventy-second through Seventy-fifth Congresses).
Death
He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in
Florence, South Carolina.
See also
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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
Sources
Allard Henry Gasque Papersat South Carolina Political Collections at the University of South Carolina
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1873 births
1938 deaths
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina
University of South Carolina alumni