7.25.49 4 Benediction by the Chaplain--- Memorial exercises in the Senate: Invocation and Scripture reading by Rev. Bernard Roll of deceased Members, read by the Chief Clerk.. Tribute by Mr. C. Wayland Brooks, of Illinois.. Tribute by Mr. Clyde R. Hoey, of North Carolina---. Mr. Berkeley L. Bunker, of Nevada---- Mr. Charles A. Plumley, of Vermont--- Mr. John R. Murdock, of Arizona.. Biography JAMES GRAVES SCRUGHAM was born in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., January 19, 1880; attended the public schools and was graduated from the engineering department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1906; served successively in engineering capacity in Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.; and San Francisco, Calif.; professor of mechanical engineering, Engineering College, University of Nevada, at Reno, 1903-14, dean 1914-17; commissioned major, United States Army, in 1917 and promoted to rank of lieutenant colonel in 1918; State engineer of Nevada 1917-23; State public service commissioner 1919-23; Governor of Nevada 1923-27; editor and publisher of Nevada State Journal 192732; special adviser to the Secretary of the Interior on Colorado River development projects in 1927; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, to December 7, 1942, when he resigned to become Senator; elected to the United States Senate on November 3, 1942, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Key Pittman for the term ending January 3, 1947, and served from December 7, 1942, until his death at the United States Naval Hospital in San Diego, Calif., June 23, 1945; interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Nev. |