Raymond Smiley Springer was a U.S. Representative

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 from Indiana

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Born on a farm in Rush County, near Dunreith, Indiana

Dunreith, Indiana

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, Springer attended the public schools, Earlham College

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, Richmond, Indiana

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, and Butler University

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, Indianapolis, Indiana

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He was graduated from the Indiana Law School at Indianapolis in 1904.
He was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Connersville, Indiana

Connersville, Indiana

At the 2000 census, there were 15,411 people, 6,382 households and 4,135 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,894.5 per square mile . There were 6,974 housing units at an average density of 857.3 per square mile...

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County attorney of Fayette County, Indiana

Fayette County, Indiana

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 from 1908 to 1914.
He served as judge of the thirty-seventh judicial circuit of Indiana 1916-1922.
During the First World War served as a captain of Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division, in 1918.
He served as lieutenant colonel of the Officers' Reserve Corps 1918-1946.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1932 and 1936.

Springer was elected as a Republican

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 to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death in Connersville, Indiana

Connersville, Indiana

At the 2000 census, there were 15,411 people, 6,382 households and 4,135 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,894.5 per square mile . There were 6,974 housing units at an average density of 857.3 per square mile...

, August 28, 1947.
He was interred in Dale Cemetery.

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