| 词条 | Roy H. Thorpe |
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|name = Roy H. Thorpe |image = RoyHThorpe.jpg |caption = |state = Nebraska |district = {{ushr|Nebraska|1|1st}} |term_start = November 7, 1922 |term_end = March 4, 1923 |predecessor = C. Frank Reavis |successor = John H. Morehead |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|12|13}} |birth_place = Greensburg, Indiana |death_date = {{Death date and age|1951|9|19|1874|12|13}} |death_place = Lincoln, Nebraska |party = Republican }} Roy Henry Thorpe (December 13, 1874 – September 19, 1951) was an American Republican Party politician. He was born near Greensburg, Indiana, on December 13, 1874, and graduated from Greensburg High School. He studied pharmacy, medicine, and law and become an evangelist. He was known as The boy tramp orator of 1896. He worked as a salesman in Du Quoin, Illinois, from 1897 to 1904 and in Shenandoah, Iowa, from 1905 to 1919. He moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, still working as a salesman in 1919. On November 7, 1922, he was elected to the Sixty-seventh United States Congress to fill the seat left open by C. Frank Reavis who resigned to become a special war fraud prosecutor. He didn't run for reelection in 1922, but tried unsuccessfully in 1924 for the Sixty-ninth United States Congress. He traveled as a sales organizer and later engaged in the insurance business. He died in Lincoln on September 19, 1951, and is interred in Wyuka Cemetery. References
state= Nebraska| district= 1 | before=C. Frank Reavis (R)| years=November 7, 1922 – March 3, 1923 | after=John H. Morehead (D)}}{{s-end}}{{NebraskaUSRepresentatives}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Thorpe, Roy Henry}}{{Nebraska-politician-stub}} 9 : 1874 births|1951 deaths|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska|Nebraska Republicans|People from Greensburg, Indiana|Politicians from Lincoln, Nebraska|Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives|People from Du Quoin, Illinois|People from Shenandoah, Iowa |
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