William L. Hungate

A Representative from Missouri. Born in Benton, Franklin County, Ill. , December 14, 1922. Graduated from Bowling Green High School, Bowling Green, Mo. , 1929. Attended the public schools, Central Methodist College, Fayette, Mo. And the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mich. A. B. , University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. , 1943. LL. B. , Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. , 1948. J. D. , Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. , 1969. United States Army, 1943-1946. Received Combat Infantry Badge and Bronze Star. Was admitted to the bar in 1948. Lawyer, private practice. Prosecuting attorney of Lincoln County, Mo, 1951-1956. Special assistant attorney general, 1958-1964. Elected simultaneously as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the Eighty-ninth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Clarence Cannon, and reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (November 3, 1964-January 3, 1977). Was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976. Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Mo. , 1977-1979. Justice, United States district judge for the eastern district of Missouri, 1979-1992. President, American Bar Association's National Conference of Federal Trial Judges, 1985-1986. Died on June 22, 2007, St. Louis County, Mo. Interment at Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Bowling Green, Mo.