Cleveland Alexander Newton (September 3, 1873 – September 17, 1945) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Newton attended the common schools and

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. He graduated from the law department of the

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in 1902, and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in

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in the same year. He served as a member of the

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in 1902–1906. From 1905 to 1907, he served as

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for the western district of Missouri, when he resigned to become assistant attorney, United States circuit court at St. Louis. He resigned this office in 1911 to become special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, which office he resigned in 1912 to resume the practice of law in St. Louis, Missouri. Newton was elected as a

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to the Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1927). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress. He did make one more run for Congress in the 1934 elections; however, he was unsuccessful. Starting in 1926, he again resumed the practice of law in St. Louis, Missouri, and

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Newton served as

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of the

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from 1928–1943. He died in

, on September 17, 1945 and was interred in Valhalla Mausoleum, St. Louis, Missouri.

References

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