Background
James P. Kem was born in Macon, Missouri.
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Education
He attended Blees Military Academy, then graduated from the University of Missouri in 1910, and Harvard Law School in 1913.
Career
He was admitted to the bar in 1913 and commenced practice in Kansas City, Missouri. He entered the United States. Army infantry in 1917 and was a World War I veteran. In 1920, Kem resumed the general practice of law in Kansas City.
He built up a very successful corporate practice over the next two decades.
By 1943, he served as President of the Lawyers Association of Kansas City and as chairman of the Jackson County Republican Committee. In 1944, he served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention and began building support for a run for the United States. Senate.
Kem defeated incumbent Frank P. Briggs, who had been appointed to the office in 1945 when Harry South. Truman resigned to become vice president Kem lost his re-election bid in 1952 to Democratic candidate, West. Stuart Symington, a former Emerson Electric Chief Executive Officer who had been Secretary of the Air Force in the Truman administration.
Kem retired to a Washington, District of Columbia law practice and then raised angus cattle in Virginia until his death in 1965 at the age of 74.
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Political Party
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