J. Swagar Sherley

Joseph Swagar Sherley (November 28, 1871 - February 13, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Sherley attended the public schools.He was graduated from the Louisville High School in 1889 and from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1891.He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Louisville, Kentucky.

Sherley was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1919).He served as chairman of the Committee on Appropriations (Sixty-fifth Congress).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.He served as director of the division of finance of the United States Railroad Administration from April 1919 to September 1920, when he resigned.He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C..He died while on a visit in Louisville, Kentucky, February 13, 1941.He was interred in Cave Hill Cemetery.

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