Background
France, Joseph Irwin was born on October 11, 1873. Son of Joseph Henry (Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Divinity) and Hannah Fletcher (James) F.
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Joseph Irwin France
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Bachelor of Arts, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1895 (Elihu Root foreign fellowship). University of Leipzig. Clark University; Doctor of Medicine College Physicians and Surgical, Baltimore, 1903.
Career
Practiced medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Secretary Medical and Chirurgical Faculty Maryland, 1916-1917. Member Maryland. Senate, 1905-1909.
Delegate Republican National Convention, 1908.
Finance and business, since 1906. United States senator from Maryland., term 1917-1923.
Special student of Russian economic conditions. Renominated for United States Senate, 1922.
Candidate against Herbert Hoover, 1931-1932, for Republican presidential nomination.
Engaged in international trade. President Republic International Corporation. Member State Planning communications of Maryland.
Member Maryland.
State Board of Health. Vice president board of trustees Jacob Tome Institute of Portuguese Deposit, Maryland.
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Mason.
Connections
Married Evalyn South. (Nesbitt) Tome, June 24, 1903 (died 1927). Married second, Tatiana Vladimirovna Dechtereva, Paris, France, July 13, 1927.
