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KNOTT COUNTY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES
Short Biographical Sketches
BATES,
Joseph Bengal, a Representative from Kentucky; born in
Republican, Ky., October 29, 1893; attended the public schools and
the Mountain Training School at Hindman, Ky.; was graduated from
Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College at Richmond in 1916; studied
law; taught in the rural schools of Knott County, Ky., 1912-1915;
high school superintendent at Raceland, Ky., 1917-1919; county clerk
of Greenup County, Ky., 1922-1938; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Fred M. Vinson; reelected to the Seventy-sixth and to the six
succeeding Congresses and served from June 4, 1938, to January 3,
1953; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1952, and was
unsuccessful for the Democratic nomination in 1956 for the United
States Senate; engaged in the practice of law and was a resident of
Greenup, Ky.; died in Ashland, Ky., September 10, 1965; interment in
Bellefonte Memorial Gardens, Flatwoods, Ky.
Note: I worked with his daughter Becky for many years.
We are also related through our Martin lineage.
Gloria |
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| KNOTT, James
Proctor, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Raywick,
near Lebanon, Marion County, Ky., on August 29, 1830; attended the
public schools; studied law; moved to Memphis, Mo., in May 1850; was
admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced practice in Memphis, Mo.;
member of the Missouri house of representatives in 1857 and resigned
in August 1859; attorney general of Missouri in 1859 and 1860;
returned to Kentucky and commenced the practice of law in Lebanon in
1863; elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth and Forty-first
Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1870; again elected to the Forty-fourth and to the
three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1883); chairman,
Committee on the Judiciary (Forty-fourth through Forty-sixth
Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1882;
one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in
1876 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against William W.
Belknap, ex-Secretary of War; Governor of Kentucky 1883-1887;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1891; professor
of civics and economics, Centre College, Danville, Ky., 1892-1894,
and dean of its law school 1894-1901; died in Lebanon, Ky., June 18,
1911; interment in Ryder Cemetery. |
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PERKINS, Carl Dewey, (father of Carl Christopher Perkins), a
Representative from Kentucky; born in Hindman, Knott County, Ky.,
October 15, 1912; attended the Knott County grade schools, Hindman
High School, Caney Junior College (now Alice Lloyd College), Lees
Junior College, and was graduated from Jefferson School of Law (now
the University of Louisville Law School), Louisville, Ky., in 1935;
was admitted to the bar in 1935 and commenced the practice of law in
Hindman, Ky.; in 1939 served an unexpired term as commonwealth
attorney from the thirty-first judicial district; member of Kentucky
General Assembly from the ninety-ninth district in 1940; elected
Knott County attorney in 1941, reelected in 1945, and resigned
January 1, 1948, to become counsel for Department of Highways,
Frankfort, Ky.; during the Second World War enlisted in the United
States Army and saw service in the European Theater; elected as a
Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the seventeen succeeding
Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his death;
chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Ninetieth through
Ninety-eighth Congresses); was a resident of Hindman, Ky. until his
death August 3, 1984, in Lexington, Ky.; interment in Perkins
Cemetery, Leburn, Ky. |
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| PERKINS,
Carl Christopher, (son of Carl Dewey Perkins), a
Representative from Kentucky; born in Washington, D.C., August 6,
1954; graduated from Fort Hunt High School, Alexandria, Va., 1972;
B.A., Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., 1976; J.D., University of
Louisville, Louisville, Ky., 1978; lawyer, private practice; member
of the Kentucky state house of representatives, 1981-1984; elected
simultaneously as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the
Ninety-ninth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of his father, United States Representative Carl
Dewey Perkins, and reelected to the three succeeding Congresses
(November 6, 1984-January 3, 1993); was not a candidate for
renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992; is a
resident of Hindman, Ky. |
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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