A Senator from Kentucky. Born in Somerset, Pulaski County, Ky. , August 23, 1901. Attended the public schools at Somerset and Centre College, Danville, Ky. Graduated from Yale College 1923. Attended Harvard Law School 1923-1925. Admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Somerset, Ky. Member, Kentucky house of representatives 1928-1930. Judge of Pulaski County, Ky. , 1930-1938. Member of the board of trustees of the University of Kentucky 1935-1946. Served during the Second World War in the United States Army 1942-1946, attaining the rank of captain. Elected circuit judge of the twenty-eighth judicial district of Kentucky in 1945 and served until his resignation in November 1946. Elected on November 5, 1946, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albert B. Chandler and served from November 6, 1946, to January 3, 1949. Unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948. Resumed the practice of law. Delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1949 and alternate delegate in 1950 and 1951. Served as adviser to the Secretary of State at the London and Brussels meetings of the Council of Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1950. Elected on November 4, 1952, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Virgil M. Chapman and served from November 5, 1952, to January 3, 1955. Unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954. Ambassador to India and Nepal 1955-1956. Delegate, United Nations General Assembly 1968. Elected on November 6, 1956, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alben W. Barkley. Reelected in 1960, and again in 1966, and served from November 7, 1956, to January 3, 1973. Was not a candidate for reelection in 1972. Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic 1974-1976. Resumed the practice of law in Washington, D. C. , and was a resident of Somerset, Ky. , and Washington, D. C. , until his death in Washington, D. C. , February 21, 1991. Interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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