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Irvine Luther Lenroot (January 31, 1869 – January 26, 1949) was an American attorney, jurist, and Republican Party politician from Wisconsin. He served as Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1903 to 1907 and represented the state in the United States Congress from 1909 to 1927, first in the United States House of Representatives until 1918, and then in the United States Senate. After he lost the Republican nomination in 1926, Herbert Hoover nominated him to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

Education and careerEdit

Born on January 31, 1869, in Superior, Wisconsin, Lenroot attended the common schools, then attended Parsons Business College in Duluth, Minnesota and read law in 1897.<ref name="auto">Template:CongBio</ref> He was a logger and reporter for the Douglas County, Wisconsin Superior Court from 1893 to 1906.<ref name="fjc.gov">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was admitted to the bar and entered private practice in Superior in 1898.<ref name="fjc.gov"/> He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1901 to 1907, serving as Speaker from 1903 to 1907.<ref name="fjc.gov"/>

Congressional serviceEdit

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Lenroot was elected as a Republican from the 11th congressional district to the United States House of Representatives of the 61st United States Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until April 17, 1918, when he resigned, having been elected Senator.<ref name="auto"/> He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on April 2, 1918, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Senator Paul O. Husting.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was reelected in 1920 and served from April 18, 1918, to March 3, 1927.<ref name="auto"/> Lenroot was a close ally of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, and favored raising federal reserve rates in 1936.He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926.<ref name="auto"/> He was Chairman of the Committee on Railroads in the 66th United States Congress, Committee on Public Lands and Surveys in the 68th United States Congress and the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds in the 69th United States Congress.<ref name="auto"/> He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C. from 1927 to 1929.<ref name="fjc.gov"/>

1920 Republican ConventionEdit

Lenroot attended the 1920 Republican National Convention at the Chicago Coliseum, and after the selection of Warren G. Harding of Ohio as the nominee for president, party leaders decided that the progressive Lenroot would be a balance to a ticket with the more conservative Harding. By Saturday night, June 12, many of the delegates had gone home, along with most of the party bosses. After Lenroot's name had been placed in nomination and seconded but before a vote could be taken, an Oregon delegate, Wallace McCamant,<ref name=":0" /> nominated Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for vice president.<ref>Sol Barzman, Madmen and Geniuses: The Vice-Presidents of the United States, pp198-199 (Follett Publishing, 1974)</ref> Unfettered by party bosses, the delegates weighed in for Coolidge, who received 674 votes to Lenroot's 146 and won on the first ballot.

Federal judicial serviceEdit

Lenroot was nominated by President Herbert Hoover on April 22, 1929, to an Associate Judge seat on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals vacated by Associate Judge Orion M. Barber.<ref name="fjc.gov"/> He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 17, 1929, and received his commission the same day.<ref name="fjc.gov"/> His service terminated on April 30, 1944, due to his retirement.<ref name="fjc.gov"/> He died on January 26, 1949, in Washington, D.C.<ref name="fjc.gov"/> He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Superior.<ref name="auto"/> The Associated Press report of his death began, "Former Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, the man who might have been the 30th President of the United States, died Wednesday night."<ref>"Irvine Lenroot, Ex-Senator, Dies", Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail, January 27, 1949, p. 5.</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Lenroot married Clara Clough of Superior, who wrote a short memoir of her girlhood in Wisconsin in the 1860s and 1870s.<ref>Clara C. Lenroot. Long, Long Ago. Appleton, Wis.: Badger Printing Co., 1929.</ref> His daughter, Katherine Lenroot, was known for successfully lobbying for the Fair Labor Standards Act and the enforcing of child labor laws.<ref>Current Biography 1940</ref>

Lenroot was born to Lars Lönnrot (Lenroot), a Swedish immigrant and farmer for whom Lenroot's Addition in the Smithville area of Duluth, Minnesota, is named.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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