John L. Cable, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John L. Cable

American politician

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1884

Place of Birth: Lima, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 15-Sep-1971

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About John L. Cable

  • John Levi Cable (April 15, 1884 – September 15, 1971) was a U.S.
  • Representative from Ohio and a great-grandson of Joseph Cable. Born in Lima, Ohio, Cable attended public school.
  • He received his undergraduate education from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
  • Later he earned an LL.B.
  • in 1906, and from the George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., he earned a J.D.
  • in 1909.
  • He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Lima, Ohio.
  • He served as prosecuting attorney of Allen County from 1917 to 1921. Cable was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925).
  • He served as chairman of the Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Sixty-eighth Congress).
  • He was not a candidate for renomination in 1924.
  • He resumed the practice of law. Cable was again elected to the Seventy-first Congress.
  • He was reelected to the Seventy-second Congress (March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1933).
  • He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.
  • He resumed the practice of law.
  • He served as special assistant to Ohio Attorney General 1933-1937.
  • He served as special counsel to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in the liquidation of the Lima First American Bank & Trust Co.
  • He was appointed Government appeal agent of Selective Service Board No.
  • 2, Lima, Ohio from 1948 to 1960.
  • He was author and publisher.
  • He died in Lima, Ohio, on September 15, 1971.
  • He is entombed in a niche in St.
  • Boniface Episcopal Church, Sarasota, Florida. Cable was particularly interested in questions of citizenship and wrote several books on the topic.
  • He was the motivating force behind the Cable Act of 1922.
  • Cable was married to Rhea Watson of Lima, Ohio in 1911.
  • They had two children.
  • He was a Freemason.

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