Tom Stout was a U.S. Representative

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 from Montana

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Born in New London, Missouri

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, Stout attended the common schools, Warrenburg (Missouri) State Normal School, and the University of Missouri

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He taught school.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1901 but did not practice.
He moved to Lewistown, Montana

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, in 1902.
He engaged in the newspaper business and was editor and publisher of the Fergus County Democrat 1902-1916 and the Lewistown Democrat News 1916-1946.
He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908 and to all State conventions from 1904 to 1946.
He served as member of the State senate of Montana 1911-1913.

Stout was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Sixty-third

63rd United States Congress

- House of Representatives:*Democratic : 291 *Republican : 134*Progressive : 9*Independent : 1TOTAL members: 435-Senate:*President of the Senate: Thomas R. Marshall*President pro tempore: James P. Clarke-Senate:...

 and Sixty-fourth

64th United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Sixty-fourth Congress).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1916.
He served as member of the Montana Public Service commission 1930-1932.

Stout was elected to the State house of representatives in 1942, 1944, and 1946.
Editorial writer for the Billings Gazette

Billings Gazette

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from 1947 to 1960.
He married Sibyl Ann Sherlock, whose father, Henry Lloyd Sherlock, had been sheriff of Broadwater County, Montana, and a Montana state senator. She had two children from a previous marriage. Tom resided in Billings, Montana

Billings, Montana

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, until his death there on December 26, 1965.
He was interred in Mountview Cemetery.

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