John Humphrey Small

John Humphrey Small (August 29, 1858 – July 13, 1946) was an attorney and a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.

Early life and education

Born in Washington, North Carolina, Small attended private schools and Trinity College (later Duke University), Durham, North Carolina where he was a Member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He taught school from 1876 to 1880 and studied law as a legal apprentice. He was admitted to the bar in 1881.

Career

He started a legal practice in his hometown of Washington. Small was elected a reading clerk of the North Carolina State Senate in 1881, the year he was admitted to the bar. That year he was also appointed as Superintendent of Public Instruction of Beaufort County.

He was elected as solicitor of the inferior court of Beaufort County 1882-1885. At the time, he also became editor of the Washington Gazette, serving from 1883-1886. He was appointed as Attorney of the Board of Commissioners of Beaufort County, serving from 1888-1896.

At the same time, Small was elected as a member of the Washington city council 1887-1890. He served as mayor of Washington in 1889 and 1890 (the position rotated among the city council members).

Active in the Democratic Party, Small served as delegate to all Democratic State conventions from 1889 to 1920.

Small was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1921) from North Carolina's 1st congressional district. He served as chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Sixty-fifth Congress).

He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1920 and retired from political office. Staying in Washington, DC, he revived his legal practice there until 1931.

Small returned to Washington where he died on July 13, 1946. He was interred in Oakdale Cemetery.

He inherited Rosedale Plantation and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

Sources

United States Congress. "John Humphrey Small (id: S000500)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Harry Skinner	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 1st congressional district 1899–1921	Succeeded by Hallett S. Ward

Chairmen of the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Public Buildings and Grounds (1837–1947)	Towns Petrikin Boardman Pratt Ficklin Faran Houston Bowdon Stanton Craige Ball Keitt Train Rice Covode Hopkins Beatty Halsey Platt Holman Cook Shallenberger Stockslager Dibble Milliken Bankhead Milliken Mercer Gillet Bartholdt Sheppard Clark Langley Elliott Lanham
Rivers and Harbors (1883–1947)	Willis Blanchard Henderson Blanchard Catchings Hooker Cooper Burton Alexander Sparkman Small Kennedy Dempsey Mansfield
Roads (1913–1947)	Shackleford Dunn Dowell Almon Cartwright Robinson
Flood Control (1916–1947)	Humphreys Rodenberg Schall Reid Wilson Whittington
Transportation and Infrastructure* (1947–)	Dondero Whittington Buckley Dondero Buckley Fallon Blatnik Jones Johnson Howard Anderson Roe Mineta E. Shuster Young Oberstar Mica W. Shuster
Note	^Alternately named Public Works* in 80th through 93rd Congresses and Public Works and Transportation in 94th through 103rd Congresses.

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