Edward Wester Creal (November 20, 1883 – October 13, 1943) was a

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from

Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...

. Born in a log house in

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near Mount Sherman, Kentucky, Creal attended the public schools of Hart and LaRue Counties, Kentucky. He taught school for nine years in LaRue County and between teaching terms attended Southern Normal School at

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, and East Lynn College at

Buffalo, Kentucky Buffalo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in southern LaRue County, Kentucky, United States. Its population was 498 as of the 2010 census. It lies along Kentucky Route 61 south of the city of Hodgenville, the cou ...

. He was graduated from the law department of

Centre College Centre College is a private liberal arts college in Danville, Kentucky. It is an undergraduate college with an enrollment of approximately 1,400 students. Centre was officially chartered by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1819. The college is a ...

in Danville, Kentucky, in 1906. He was

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in 1904 and commenced practice in

Hodgenville, Kentucky Hodgenville is a home rule-class city in LaRue County, Kentucky, United States. It is the seat of its county. Hodgenville sits along the North Fork of the Nolin River. The population was 3,206 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Elizabet ...

, in 1910. County superintendent of schools of

from 1910 to 1918. County attorney 1918-1928. Commonwealth attorney 1929-1936. He was owner and publisher of a weekly newspaper in

, from 1918 until the time of his death. He served as member of the Democratic State executive committee 1924-1940. Creal was elected as a

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to the Seventy-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Cap R. Carden. He was reelected to the Seventy-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 5, 1935, until his death in

, on October 13, 1943. He was interred in Red Hill Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Creal, Edward Wester 1883 births 1943 deaths People from Hodgenville, Kentucky Centre College alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky 20th-century American politicians

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