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R Langley, Isom P., 1851-1930.
1205 Campaign card, n.d.
One folder.
This is an undated campaign card for Isom P. Langley,
Republican candidate for Missouri’s
16th District seat in the United States House of
Representatives. Langley
was from Mountain Grove in Wright
County, Missouri.
Isom P. Langley was born in Clark County, Arkansas,
on 2 September 1851, the son of Samuel S. Langley and the former Mary Jane
Browning. He became a minister of the
gospel, serving as pastor of the First
Baptist Church
at Beebe in White County, Arkansas, and performing a marriage on 27
December 1876 in Caddo Township of Clark County. In 1880 he was enumerated by the census as a
resident of Arkadelphia in Clark County, and in 1890 he carried Conway County, Arkansas,
as the Republican candidate for Congress.
In 1908 he gave the introductory sermon at the annual meeting of the
Webster Baptist Association of Missouri at Seymour in Webster County, Missouri. By 1910 he was pastor of a Baptist Church
in Mountain Grove, Missouri.
He served as a Missouri state
representative from Laclede County for one term, 1919-1921, and died at Jefferson City in Cole
County, Missouri, where he is buried, on 13 July 1930.
It is not known whether this was a campaign for the
Republican nomination or for the general election. The card is undated, but a photographic
portrait of Langley
on the card appears to show a man in his 50s or 60s. Wright
County was included in Missouri’s 16th
congressional district from 1902 through 1930.
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