Dudley Doolittle was a U.S. Representative

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 from Kansas

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Born at Cottonwood Falls, Kansas

Cottonwood Falls, Kansas

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, Doolittle attended the public schools and the University of Kansas at Lawrence, being graduated from its law department in 1903.
He was admitted to the bar

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 the same year and commenced practice at Cottonwood Falls, Kansas

Cottonwood Falls, Kansas

Cottonwood Falls is the largest city and county seat of Chase County, Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 903.-History:-19th century:...

, in 1904.
He served as prosecuting attorney of Chase County 1908-1912.
He served as mayor of Strong City in 1912.

Doolittle was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Sixty-third

63rd United States Congress

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, Sixty-fourth

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, and Sixty-fifth

65th United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth

66th United States Congress

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 Congress.
Representative of the United States Treasury Department to Italy in 1919.
Federal Prohibition Director for Kansas in 1920.
He engaged in the practice of law in Strong City, Kansas

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, Kansas City, Missouri

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, and Washington, D.C.

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 from 1921 to 1934.

Doolittle was elected a member of the Democratic National Committee

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 in 1925.
He served as general agent of the ninth district, Farm Credit Administration from 1934 to 1938.
He served as member of the board of directors of the College of Emporia and served as its president 1938-1940.
He served as president of the Strong City State Bank and a director of the Exchange National Bank of Cottonwood Falls at time of death.
He died in Emporia, Kansas

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, November 14, 1957.
He was interred in Prairie Grove Cemetery, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas

Cottonwood Falls, Kansas

Cottonwood Falls is the largest city and county seat of Chase County, Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 903.-History:-19th century:...

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