William N. Vaile

William Newell Vaile (June 22, 1876 - July 2, 1927) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.

Born in Kokomo, Indiana, Vaile moved with his parents to Denver, Colorado, in 1881.He attended the public schools and was graduated from Yale University in 1898. During the Spanish-American War served as a private in the First Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Field Artillery from May 19, 1898, to October 25, 1898.He studied law at the University of Colorado and Harvard Law School.He was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced the practice of law in Denver, Colorado.He served on the Mexican border from June 28 to December 1, 1916, as a second lieutenant in the First Separate Battalion, National Guard of Colorado.

Vaile was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death in Rocky Mountain National Park on July 2, 1927.He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Sixty-eighth Congress).He was interred in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado.

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