Background
Garrett, Finis James was born on August 26, 1875 in on farm in Weakley County, Tennessee, United States. Son of Noah and Virginia (Baughman) Garrett.
United States representative judge politician
Garrett, Finis James was born on August 26, 1875 in on farm in Weakley County, Tennessee, United States. Son of Noah and Virginia (Baughman) Garrett.
Bachelor of Arts, Bethel College, McKenzie, Tennessee, 1897.
During that period he worked as a teacher and an editor for local newspapers. After graduation, Garrett went on to study law and passed the Tennessee Bar Association in 1899. He was appointed master in chancery and served from September 14, 1900 to January 24, 1905.
Elected to the Fifty-ninth United States Congress and to the eleven succeeding Congresses, Garrett served from March 4, 1905 to March 3, 1929.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs (Sixty-fifth Congress), and was minority leader for the Sixty-eighth through Seventieth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination to the Seventy-first Congress in 1928, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator.
He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1924. Garrett also did some history writing producing How Andrew Jackson Applied Democratic Principles.
An Address.. in 1927.
He was appointed judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals from 1929 to 1937. He was Presiding judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals from 1937 to 1955. Garrett died on May 26, 1956 (age 80 years, 274 days).
He is interred at the Sunset Cemetery in Dresden, Tennessee.
Member 59th to 70th Congresses, 9th Tennessee District, minority floor leader of 68th Congress.
Married Elizabeth Harris Burns, November 27, 1901 (deceased). Children: Burns, Mistress Virginia G. Koehler.