Bird J. Vincent

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name = Bird J. Vincent
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state = Michigan
district = 8th
party = Republican
term_start = March 4, 1923
term_end = July 18, 1931
preceded = Joseph W. Fordney
succeeded = Michael J. Hart
birth_date = March 6, 1880
birth_place = Brandon Township, Michigan
death_date = July 18, 1931
death_place = see article
nationality = American
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alma_mater = University of Michigan
occupation = Lawyer
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Bird J. Vincent (March 61880 - July 181931) was a soldier and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Early life

Vincent was born Brandon Township near Clarkston, Michigan.

Education

Vincent attended the public schools of Oakland and Midland Counties and Ferris Institute (now Ferris State University) in Mecosta County. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905, and was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced practice in Saginaw.

Career

He served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Saginaw County from 1909 to 1914 and prosecuting attorney from 1915 to 1917. In 1917, Vincent resigned to enter the Army. During the First World War, he served ten months in France as a first lieutenant of the Sixth Train Headquarters and in the Three Hundred and Second Train Headquarters. After the war, he served as city attorney of Saginaw from 1919 to 1923. In 1922, Vincent was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 8th congressional district to the 68th Congress, and subsequently re-elected to the four succeeding Congressional terms, serving from March 41923 until his death in 1931. He was chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 2 in the 69th and 71st Congresses.

Death

Vincent died of heart disease, in office, while en route to San Francisco from Honolulu, Hawaii on board the transport USS "Henderson". He interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, Michigan.

References

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vincent.html#R9M0JG75L The Political Graveyard]