Chester Isaiah Long
Longc. 1894–1901
United States Senator fromKansas
In office March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1909
Preceded by	William A. Harris
Succeeded by	Joseph L. Bristow
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromKansas's7th district
In office March 4, 1899 – March 4, 1903
Preceded by	Jerry Simpson
Succeeded by	Victor Murdock
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromKansas's7th district
In office March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897
Preceded by	Jerry Simpson
Succeeded by	Jerry Simpson
Member of theKansas Senate
In office 1889–1893
Personal details
Born	(1860-10-12)October 12, 1860 Millerstown,Pennsylvania
Died	July 1, 1934(1934-07-01) (aged 73) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Republican

Chester Isaiah Long (October 12, 1860 – July 1, 1934) was aUnited States representative andSenator fromKansas. Born inGreenwood Township, Pennsylvania, he moved with his parents toDaviess County, Missouri, in 1865 and toPaola, Kansas, in 1879. He attended the country schools and graduated from thenormal school at Paola in 1880. He taught school for several years, studied law, and was admitted to thebar in 1885, commencing practice inMedicine Lodge, Kansas.

He was a member of theKansas Senate from 1889 to 1893 and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress. He was elected as aRepublican to the Fifty-fourth Congress, serving from March 4, 1895, to March 3, 1897; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress, but was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1899, until his resignation, effective March 4, 1903, before the commencement of the Fifty-eighth Congress, to become Senator. He was elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1909; he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908.

While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on the University of the United States (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses) and a member of the Committee on the Census (Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses).

He moved toWichita in 1911 and continued the practice of law, and was chairman of the commission to revise thegeneral statutes of Kansas from 1921 to 1923. He moved toWashington, D.C., in 1925 and continued the practice of law, and from 1925 to 1926 was the president of theAmerican Bar Association. He died in Washington in 1934; interment was in Old Mission Cemetery,Wichita.

• United States Congress."Chester I. Long (id: L000412)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• 1860 births
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• People from Medicine Lodge, Kansas
• People from Perry County, Pennsylvania
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• 19th-century members of the Kansas Legislature

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