John Frost Nugent was a Democratic

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 United States Senator

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 from Idaho

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.

Nugent attended public schools, and worked in mine

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s in Idaho and Australia

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. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar

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 in 1898, commencing practice in Silver City, Idaho

Silver City, Idaho

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. He was prosecuting attorney of Owyhee County

Owyhee County, Idaho

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 from 1899 to 1906.

In January 1918, Governor Moses Alexander

Moses Alexander

Moses Alexander was the second elected Jewish governor of a US state , serving as the 11th Governor of Idaho from 1915 until 1919. He was Idaho's first and so far only Jewish Governor....

 appointed Nugent to the United States Senate to succeed James H. Brady

James H. Brady

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, who died in office. Nugent defeated former Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 Governor Frank R. Gooding

Frank R. Gooding

Frank Robert Gooding was a Republican United States Senator and the seventh Governor of Idaho. The city of Gooding and Gooding County, both in southern Idaho, are named for him....

 in a special election that November to finish the term. In the Senate Nugent served as chairman of the Committee on Fisheries.

In 1920 Nugent faced Gooding again for election to a full-six year term, but this time Gooding beat Nugent. Nugent resigned in January 1921 to accept an appointment from President Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

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 to the Federal Trade Commission

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, and was succeeded by Senator-elect Gooding.

In 1926 Nugent ran a third time for Senate, but finished third behind Gooding and Progressive

Progressive Party (United States, 1924)

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 candidate H. F. Samuels

H. F. Samuels

H. F. Samuels was the leading spokesman of the Idaho chapter of the Non-Partisan League and later the Idaho Progressive Party in the 1910s and 1920s.Samuels became a multi-millionaire in the mining industry in northern Idaho...

. Nugent resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.

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 He remained in the area until his death.

Nugent is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

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