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. In the House of Representatives THURSDAY, April 18, 1946. Mr. FERNANDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of House Resolution 604. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: Resolved, That on Tuesday, the 28th day of May 1946, immediately after the approval of the Journal, the House shall stand at recess for the purpose of holding the memorial services as arranged by the Committee on Memorials, under the provisions of clause 40-A of Rule XI. The order of exercises and proceedings of the service shall be printed in the Congressional Record, and all Members shall have leave for sixty legislative days to extend their remarks in the Congressional Record on the life, character, and public service of the deceased Members. At the conclusion of the proceedings the Speaker shall call the House to order, and then, as a further mark of respect to the memories of the deceased, he shall declare the House adjourned. * The resolution was agreed to. |