States House Representatives: In 12 he was elected to the United States House Representatives, and on March 4, 1913, began long service in the House. In the latter year was elected to the House Interstate and For-;n Commerce Committee, and from 1931 to 1937
•ved as chairman of that committee. During World War I, for the benefit of Amer-.n servicemen, he composed the War Risk In-
•ance Act. In 1921 he became chairman of the:mocratic party caucus.
Mexico City. In 1850 he became governor of Mississippi, but the next year was forced to resign because of alleged complicity in the Cuban filibustering expedition of Narciso Lopez (q.v.). From 1855 he was a member of the United States House of Representatives, where he was an ardent advocate of States' Rights (q.v.).
Upon his retirement from Congress in 1813, he was at once elected to the State senate, where he remained until 1820, then entering the House of Representatives, of which he was speaker until his resignation in 1822 to become judge of the Boston Municipal Court. In this capacity he was the first to hand down the ruling then much criticized but now accepted in the United States and England, that the publication of truth with good intent and for a justifiable end is not libel.
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