Leonidas C. Dyer
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Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer was an American politician, attorney, civil rights activist, and military officer. S. S. Representative from Missouri from 1911 to 1933. S. Army as a private, Dyer served notably in the Spanish-American War; and was promoted to colonel at the war's end.
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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.
William Borah c. 1919-1925
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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 Missouri from 1911 to 1933. In 1898, enrolling in the U.S. Army as a private, Dyer served notably in the Spanish-American War; and was promoted to colonel at the war's end.
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