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Show so in the Sencate Eighteen yeGJ's can mean Durl. Thomas' first various committees. many position, of term he VlQS leadership on placed on the committees with which he served the lion's shQle of hi' time In the SenGte. These Gommittees were: EdueGtioft and labor, Foreign Relations, MUit.,y Affairs, MInes, emd Min'" in9, and PensioM. He also served on the on many speeiol committees which inelvded the Committ. Reoreoni_ion of Con.- .. Civil Liberties Committee, Committee , Investigate the Merchant Marine and Committee on to the Fls'Cal Affoi ... of the Government. Befo,re his first 'erm ended he end Lobo:r (in 1937). Q\OftShip to was Chai;rman of the Committee 0" EdueatioA During World War II (Jenuary, 1945) he resigned this chair· become chairman of the very lmportant (e:spec:iaUy at that time) Mm .... t.y Affoir' Committee. He served th.ere until, the 80th Congress. RepublleQn5 won the majority of seats He became ChQirtnan.f the Committee when the DemoCIQts regaJned supremacy in 1946, the Labor end Public We,lf.. on in the 21st Congress until his def.at ift 1950. \!\lhile in the Senate he lost hls first wife three children, ChJyo (Mrs Horton R. on April 29, 1942. T.h.y had had Telford), Esther (Mrs. Wayne Grover), and Edna Louise (Mrs. Lawrence Lee Hamon). On November 6, 1946 he married Ethel Evans in the Salt loke Tampl e of the L. D. S. Church. Thomas 23.2E.: was cit. author of the following books: Sukui No Michl,23 Chinese |
