- Porter J. McCumber
Porter James McCumber (
February 3 ,1858 -May 18 ,1933 ) was aUnited States Senator fromNorth Dakota . Born inCrete, Illinois , he moved with his parents toRochester, Minnesota the same year. He attended the common schools and taught school for a few years, and graduated from the law department of theUniversity of Michigan atAnn Arbor in 1880. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Wahpeton, Dakota Territory in 1881. He was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives in 1885 and a member of the Territorial Senate in 1887. He served as State's attorney of Richland County from 1889 to 1891 and was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1899. McCumber won reelection in 1905, 1911, and 1916 and served fromMarch 4 ,1899 , toMarch 3 ,1923 ; he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1922. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-seventh Congress) and a member of the Committee on Pensions (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-second and Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses), the Committee on Indian Affairs (Fifty-ninth Congress), the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), and theCommittee on Finance (Sixty-seventh Congress). One of his main legislative accomplishments was theFordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922.McCumber resumed the practice of law in
Washington, D.C. and was appointed by PresidentCalvin Coolidge in 1925 as a member of theInternational Joint Commission to pass upon all cases involving the use of the boundary waters between the United States andCanada , in which capacity he served until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1933. His first interment was in the Abbey Mausoleum, adjoiningArlington National Cemetery ; the remains were removed and reinterred in unknown location.References
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