Bird J. Vincent

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Bird J. Vincent (March 6, 1880 - July 18, 1931) was a soldier and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Vincent was born Brandon Township near Clarkston, Michigan and attended the public schools of Oakland and Midland Counties and Ferris Institute (now Ferris State University) in Mecosta County. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905, was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced practice in Saginaw. He served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Saginaw County from 1909 to 1914 and prosecuting attorney from 1915 to 1917.

In 1917, Vincent resigned to enter the Army. During the First World War, he served ten months in France as first lieutenant of the Sixth Train Headquarters and in the Three Hundred and Second Train Headquarters. After the war, he served as city attorney of Saginaw from 1919 to 1923.

In 1922, Vincent was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 8th congressional district to the 68th Congress, and subsequently re-elected to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1923 until his death in 1931. He was chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 2 in the 69th 71st Congresses.

Vincent died of heart disease, in office, while en route to San Francisco from Honolulu, Hawaii on board the transport USS Henderson. He interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, Michigan.

[edit] References

• Bird J. Vincent at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Joseph W. Fordney

United States Representative for the 8th Congressional District of Michigan 1923 – 1931

Succeeded by Michael J. Hart