Courtney Walker Hamlin 
General Notes
A Representative from Missouri; born in Brevard, Transylvania County, N.C., October 27, 1858; in 1869 moved to Missouri with his parents, who settled in Leasburg, Crawford County; attended the common schools and Salem (Mo.) Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Bolivar, Polk County, Mo.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; elected to the Sixtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1919); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918; resumed the practice of law in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., until November 1935, when he retired and moved to Santa Monica, Calif., where he died February 16, 1950; interment in East Lawn Cemetery, Springfield, Mo.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1695 in Maryland d.~ 1745
- b.~ 1725 in Maryland d.~ 1800
- b.~ 1696 in Maryland
- b.1765 in North Carolina d.1840
- b.~ 1726 d.~ 1799
- b.10 Jul 1795 in North Carolina d.27 Apr 1875 in South Carolina
- b.~ 1776 d.~ 1850
- b.09 Jul 1828 in North Carolina d.16 Dec 1922
- b.~ 1767 d.Nov 1807 in North Carolina
- b.07 Sep 1807 in North Carolina d.01 Feb 1854 in North Carolina
- b.1775 in North Carolina d.16 Jan 1820 in North Carolina
- b.27 Oct 1858 in Brevard, NC d.16 Feb 1950 in California
- b.21 Oct 1828 in North Carolina d.03 Feb 1916 in Missouri
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