Background
LONGWORTH, Nicholas was born on November 5, 1869 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
LONGWORTH, Nicholas was born on November 5, 1869 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In Harvard College he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon (Alpha chapter) and the Porcellian Club. He was a talented, but not necessarily an industrious student; one friend wrote about him: “His good head made it easy for him to get perfectly respectable marks without doing much of any work.
O. House of Representative, 1899; Senate, 1901; elected Member 58-62, 64-71 Congresses; elected Speaker, 69- 71 Congresses. Republ
Member of the State house of representatives in 1899 and 1900; served in the State senate 1901-1903; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; elected to the Sixty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death; majority leader (Sixty-eighth Congress), Speaker of the House of Representatives (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses);
Republican Party , the United States of America