Vice President under Harry Truman
January 20, 1949 until January 20, 1953
BARKLEY, Alben William, a
Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and a Vice President of the United
States; born near Lowes, Graves County, Ky., November 24, 1877; attended the
public schools and was graduated from Marvin College, Clinton, Ky., in 1897;
attended Emory College, Oxford, Ga., and the University of Virginia Law School,
Charlottesville, Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in
Paducah, McCracken County, Ky.; prosecuting attorney for McCracken County, Ky.,
1905-1909; judge of McCracken County Court 1909-1913; elected as a Democrat to
the Sixty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3,
1927); did not seek renomination in 1926, having become a candidate for United
States Senator; elected to the United States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932,
1938, and again in 1944, and served from March 4, 1927, until his resignation on
January 19, 1949; majority leader 1937-1947; minority leader 1947-1949; elected
Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with President
Harry S. Truman in 1948, and was inaugurated January 20, 1949, for the term
ending January 20, 1953; again elected to the United States Senate and served
from January 3, 1955, until his death in Lexington, Va., April 30, 1956;
interment in Mount Kenton Cemetery, on Lone Oak Road, near Paducah, Ky --
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Directory of the United States Congress.
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