Born:11-Mar-1884
Birthplace:Laramie, WY
Died:25-Oct-1961
Location of death:San Francisco, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Other (donated to University of California Medical Center)
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Senator from California, 1939-50 Father: Stephen Wheeler Downey (US Congressman, b. 1839, d. 1902)
Mother: Evangeline Victoria Owen
Wife: (five children)
University:University of Wyoming
Law School:University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1907)
US Senator, California (3-Jan-1939 to 30-Nov-1950, resigned)
State Bar of California
Wyoming State Bar Association
Author of books:
Onward America (1933)
Why I Believe in the Townsend Plan (1936)
Pensions or Penury? (1939)
Highways to Prosperity (1940)
They Would Rule the Valley (1947)
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