Samuel Chapman Massingale (August 2, 1870 – January 17, 1941) was an American politician and a
U.S. Representative
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from
Oklahoma
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.
Biography
Born in
Quitman, Mississippi
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History
Quitman was established in 1839 and named as the county seat.
During the A ...
, Massingale was the son of George M. and Martha McGowan Massingale, and attended the public schools and the
University of Mississippi at Oxford
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where he studied law.
Career
Massingale moved to
Fort Worth, Texas
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in 1887 and was employed for a short time as a section hand while he continued to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in
Cordell, Oklahoma
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, in 1900.
During the Spanish–American War, Massingale served as a private in Company D, Second Texas Infantry. He served as a member of the Oklahoma Territorial Council in 1902. The following year he married Anna Canaday, and they had four children. He ran unsuccessfully for the Sixtieth Congress in 1906.
Massingale was elected as a
Democrat
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to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1935, until his death on January 17, 1941.
Death
Massingale died in
Washington, D.C.
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, January 17, 1941 (age 70 years, 168 days). He is
interred
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in Lawnview Cemetery,
Cordell, Oklahoma
New Cordell is a city in and the county seat of Washita County, Oklahoma, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 183. The population was 2,775 at the time of the 2020 Census. The community was previously established a few miles from the curr ...
.
See also
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References
External links
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1870 births
1941 deaths
People from New Cordell, Oklahoma
United States Army soldiers
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma
People from Quitman, Mississippi
Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature
20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives