Lemuel P. Padgett

Lemuel P. Padgett

Lemuel Phillips Padgett (November 28, 1855–August 2, 1922) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th congressional district of Tennessee. He was born in Columbia, Tennessee in Maury County. He attended the private schools in that county and graduated from Erskine College at Due West, South Carolina in 1876. He began the study of laws in September 1876, was admitted to the bar in March 1877, and commenced practice in Columbia, Tennessee in January 1879.

He was a member of the Tennessee Senate from 1899 to 1901. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and the ten succeeding Congresses. He served from March 4, 1901 until his death in Washington, D.C. on August 2, 1922. During the Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses, he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Naval Affairs. He was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery in Columbia, Tennessee.


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