John Levi Cable (April 15, 1884 – September 15, 1971) was a

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from

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and a great-grandson of Joseph Cable. Born in

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, Cable attended public school. He received his undergraduate education from

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. Later he earned an LL.B. in 1906, and from the

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, he earned a J.D. in 1909. He was

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in 1909 and commenced practice in

. He served as prosecuting attorney of Allen County from 1917 to 1921. Cable was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925). He served as chairman of the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Sixty-eighth Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1924. He resumed the practice of law. Cable was again elected to the Seventy-first Congress. He was reelected to the Seventy-second Congress (March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1933). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress. He resumed the practice of law. He served as special assistant to

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1933-1937. He served as special counsel to the

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in the liquidation of the Lima First American Bank & Trust Co. He was appointed Government appeal agent of Selective Service Board No. 2,

from 1948 to 1960. He was author and publisher. He died in

, on September 15, 1971. He is entombed in a niche in St. Boniface Episcopal Church,

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. Cable was particularly interested in questions of citizenship and wrote several books on the topic. He was the motivating force behind the Cable Act of 1922. Cable was married to Rhea Watson of

in 1911. They had two children. He was a

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cable, John Levi 1884 births 1971 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio Politicians from Lima, Ohio Kenyon College alumni George Washington University Law School alumni County district attorneys in Ohio 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives