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CARAWAY, Thaddeus Horatius,
(husband of Hattie Wyatt Caraway), a Representative and a Senator
from Arkansas; born on a farm near Springhill, Stoddard County, Mo.,
October 17, 1871; attended the common schools; moved to Arkansas in
1883 with his parents, who settled in Clay County; graduated from
Dickson (Tenn.) College in 1896; taught in country schools
1896-1899; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced
practice in Osceola, Ark.; moved to Lake City, Craighead County,
Ark., in 1900 and to Jonesboro, Ark., in 1901, and continued the
practice of law; prosecuting attorney for the second judicial
circuit of Arkansas 1908-1912; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1913-March 3, 1921); did not seek re-nomination, having become a
candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate in 1920; reelected in 1926 and served from March 4, 1921,
until his death, due to a blood clot in the coronary artery, in
Little Rock, Ark., November 6, 1931; lay in state in Arkansas state
capital in Little Rock, November 8, 1931; interment in Woodlawn
(formerly West Lawn) Cemetery, Jonesboro, Ark. He belonged to the
fraternal orders of the Elks and Knights of Pythias.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Ledbetter, Calvin R., Jr. “The
Other Caraway: Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway.” Arkansas Historical
Quarterly 64 (Summer 2005): 123-146; U.S. Congress. Memorial
Services. 72nd Cong., 1st sess., 1931-1932. Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1932.
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