During the First World War he served as a private in Battery A, 72nd Field Artillery Regiment at Camp Knox, Kentucky, from August 27, 1918, to January 9, 1919.
As quoted in Time magazine "ancient Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnot [who favored the draft] said it was the best blow he had heard in his 50 years in the House.
"[1] He filed for re-election for the Seventy-ninth Congress in 1944, but withdrew, ceding the nomination to state Senate Majority Leader Earle Clements of Morganfield, who had challenged him.
[2] He resumed the practice of law, pursued agricultural interests, and was a resident of Brownsville, Kentucky, until his death there on August 15, 1980.
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