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Oddie Campaign Broadside NV - Reno,Washoe County - 1932 - 2012aug - General Americana

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Oddie Campaign Broadside NV - Reno,Washoe County - 1932 - 2012aug - General Americana
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A campaign poster for Oddie , who was running for re-election to the United States Senate in 1932, but lost to Pat McCarran. Tasker Oddie, Nevada; was born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., on 20 October 1870 and reared in East Orange, N.J. He attended the public schools; while engaged in business in New York, attended night law school and graduated from the law department of New York University in 1895. He was admitted to the bar the same year, but did not engage in extensive practice. Oddie later moved to Nevada in 1898 and settled in Austin; became interested in mining, agricultural pursuits, and in raising livestock. He then developed the principal gold and silver mining properties in the Tonopah and Goldfield districts. His resume includes: district attorney for Nye County 1901-1902; member, State senate 1903-1906; resumed his former business pursuits; Governor of Nevada 1911-1915; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1920; reelected in 1926 and served from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1933; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (68th-71st Congresses), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (72nd Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932; engaged in mining; died in San Francisco, 17 Feb. 1950; interment in Lone Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Nev. Poster is framed and mounted and measures 15" x 9". It is in near new condition. -59837