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Donald Snow | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMaine's4th district | |
| In office March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1933 | |
| Preceded by | Ira G. Hersey |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Donald Francis Snow (1877-09-06)September 6, 1877 Bangor, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | February 12, 1958(1958-02-12) (aged 80) Gorham, Maine, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Education | Bowdoin College (BA) University of Maine (LLB) |
Donald Francis Snow (September 6, 1877 – February 12, 1958) was a member of theUS House of Representatives fromMaine.
Snow was born inBangor, Maine on September 6, 1877. He attended the public schools of his native city and was graduated fromBowdoin College, inBrunswick, Maine, in 1901. He later attended the law school of theUniversity of Maine, earning aJuris Doctor in 1904.
He was elected city solicitor of Bangor in 1906, serving until 1910; and he was prosecuting attorney ofPenobscot County, Maine from 1911 to 1913.
Snow was elected as a Republican to theSeventy-first andSeventy-second Congresses, serving from March 4, 1929, to March 3, 1933. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932.
Snow engaged in literary work inWashington, D.C. from 1933 to 1935. He moved toGorham, Maine in 1936 and engaged in poultry farming until 1945. Snow was secretary for the E.C. Jones Insurance Corporation ofPortland, Maine, and later had his own insurance business.
In April 1935, Snow was committed to the Maine State Prison for two to four years for embezzlement, convicted of converting to his own use funds from two estates of which he was serving as executor. He was pardoned in December 1935.[1]
Snow died inGorham, Maine on February 12, 1958. He was originally buried at Evergreen Cemetery inPortland, but was later re-interred at Eastern Cemetery in Gorham.
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| Preceded by | Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMaine's 4th congressional district 1929–1933 | Constituency abolished |
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