Clay Stone Briggs (January 8, 1876 – April 29, 1933) was a
Democratic member of the
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...
from 1919 through his death in 1933.
Early life
Briggs was born in
Galveston, Texas, on January 8, 1876. While a child, he went to both public and private schools. He attended
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...
(where he was a member of the Nu Chapter of the
Chi Phi Fraternity),
Harvard, and graduated from
Yale Law School
Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & Worl ...
.
Political career
Shortly after graduating college, he ran for the
Texas House of Representatives
The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. As of the 2010 United States census, each member represents abo ...
and served there from 1907 to 1909. He was also a judge in the tenth district in Texas until 1919, when he became a member of congress. Briggs ran for
Texas's 7th congressional district and served from March 4, 1919, until he died in
Washington, D.C.
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, in 1933. He is buried in
Oakwood Cemetery in
Syracuse,
New York.
See also
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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
External links
Biography in the Handbook of Texas Online
1876 births
1933 deaths
People from Galveston, Texas
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Harvard University alumni
Yale Law School alumni
Texas lawyers
Texas state court judges
Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas
Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, New York)
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