Brazilla Carroll Reece, (husband of Louise G. Reece), a Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Butler, Johnson County, Tenn.,
December 22,
1889; attended the public schools,
Watauga Academy[?],
Carson-Newman College[?],
New York University, and the
University of London; assistant secretary and instructor in the New York University in 1916 and 1917; during the
First World War enlisted in May 1917 and served with the
American Expeditionary Forces[?] from October 1917 to July 1919; was decorated with the
Distinguished Service Cross[?],
Distinguished Service Medal,
Purple Heart, and the
French Croix de Guerre[?] with Palm; director of the School of Business Administration of New York University in 1919 and 1920; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; elected to the Seventy-third and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; delegate to the
Republican National Conventions[?] in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, and 1948; lawyer, banker, and publisher; member of the Board of Regents of the
Smithsonian Institution in 1945 and 1946; chairman of the
Republican National Committee[?] 1946-1948; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1948; elected to the Eighty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in Bethesda, Md., March 19, 1961; chairman, Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations (Eighty-third Congress); interment in
Monte Vista Burial Park[?],
Johnson City, Tennessee.
Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000108
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