Leonidas C. Dyer
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Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer was an American politician, attorney, civil rights activist, and military officer. A Republican, he served eleven terms in the U.S. Congress as a U.S. Representative from Mis
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Leonidas C. Dyer from Missouri was elected to Congress in 1910. In 1918 he authored the Dyer anti-lynching bill. Although passed in the House in 1922, the bill was defeated in the Senate by a Southern Democratic filibuster. Dyer's motto: "We have just begun to fight."
U.S. Sen. Lee Slater Overman from North Carolina, Harris & Ewing, 1914. Southern Democratic senators filibustered the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in December 1922 and twice more to prevent its passage.
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David P. Dyer
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David Patterson Dyer was a United States representative from Missouri and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Leonidas C. Dyer
…Warrenton in Warren County, Missouri, the son of James Coleman Dyer and Martha E. (Camp) Dyer. His father's family had roots in Virginia, where his uncle David Patterson Dyer was born; he was elected as a Republican Congressman from Missouri (1869–71). Leonidas attended common schools and Central Wesleyan College. He studied…
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