Background
Himes, Joseph Hendrix was born on August 15, 1885 in New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Thomas and Martha J. (MacKnight) Himes.
United States representative politician
Himes, Joseph Hendrix was born on August 15, 1885 in New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Thomas and Martha J. (MacKnight) Himes.
Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, 1900-1904, Pennsylvania State College, 1904-1907. Doctor of Laws, Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) College, 1957.
He was employed in the steel industry and later engaged as banker. Himes was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923). He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1922 for reelection to the Sixty-eighth Congress.
He then moved to Frederick, MD in 1925 and took possession of the mansion known as Prospect Hall (Frederick, Maryland) where he lived with his family until 1958, entertaining and hosting dignitaries and US Presidents like Franklin Delano Roosevelt en route to Shangri-La, later dubbed Camp David. He engaged in various business interests in Washington, New York City, and elsewhere. He died in Washington, D.C., on September 9, 1960, and was interred in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
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Member 67th Congress (1921-1923), 16th Ohio District Special partner brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith New York City. Member Ohio Society New York, Sigma Chi. Mason (32°, Shriner).
Clubs: Metropolitan.
Married Eilleen Canfield, May 6, 1915 (deceased).; married second, Hilda Birch Butterworth, December 30, 1952. Children: Canfield MacKnight, Marilynn (Mistress Joseph D. Riviere), Katrina (Mistress John B. Wogan, Junior.