Theodore Leonard Irving (March 24, 1898 – March 8, 1962) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Missouri
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.
Born in
St. Paul
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,
Ramsey County, Minnesota
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, Irving moved with his parents to a farm in North Dakota, where he attended the public schools. He worked for a railroad as a boy and during the First World War; later, he left the railroad to become manager of a theater in Montana. Irving then moved to California and was manager of a hotel. He moved to
Jackson County, Missouri
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, in 1934 and was employed as a construction worker and later became a representative of the American Federation of Labor.
Irving was elected as a
Democrat
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to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1953). He was unsuccessful for reelection in 1952 and in a bid for the Democratic nomination in 1954. He once again became a labor organizer, and later was president of a labor union in
Kansas City, Missouri
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.
He died on March 8, 1962, in
Washington, D.C.
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, while on a business trip, and was interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City.
Electoral history
See also
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List of Jewish members of the United States Congress
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References
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1898 births
1962 deaths
Politicians from Saint Paul, Minnesota
American trade union leaders
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri
20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives