Albert Henry Vestal

Albert Henry Vestal

Albert Henry Vestal (January 18, 1875 – April 1, 1932) was a Republican United States Representative from Indiana from 1917 to 1932.

Biography

Born on a farm near Frankton, in Madison County, Indiana, on January 18, 1875, he attended common schools, worked in steel mills and factories and attended the Indiana State Normal School, now Indiana State University, at Terre Haute. He taught school for several years and then graduated from the law department of the Valparaiso University in 1896. Admitted to the bar in 1896, Vestal commenced practicing law in Anderson, Indiana. He was elected prosecuting attorney of the fiftieth judicial circuit and served from 1900 to 1906. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in 1908 and an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress. However, he was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress and to seven succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1917, until his death. He was chairman of the committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Patents (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses); majority whip (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses). Vestal died in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 1932 and was interred in East Maplewood Cemetery in Anderson. He was a Republican Representative from Indiana 1917–1932 and served as House Majority Whip 1923–1931.

External links

• "Albert Henry Vestal". Find a Grave. Retrieved September 3, 2010. 
• Albert Henry Vestal at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Majority Whips of the U.S. House of Representatives Tawney Watson Dwight Bell Knutson Vestal McDuffie Greenwood Boland Ramspeck Sparkman Arends Priest Arends Albert Boggs O'Neill McFall Brademas Foley Coelho Gray Bonior DeLay Blunt Clyburn McCarthy Scalise

Republican Whips of the United States House of Representatives Tawney Watson Dwight Burke Hamilton Knutson Vestal Bachmann Englebright Arends Michel Lott Cheney Gingrich DeLay Blunt Cantor McCarthy Scalise

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