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QUIRING, ke-re'no, Elpidio, Philippine house of Representatives statesman: b. Vigan, Luzon, the Philippine house of Representativess, Nov. 16, 1890; d. Novaliches, Feb. 29, 1956. The son of a provincial jail warden, he was educated at the University of the Philippine house of Representativess, from which he received a law degree in 1915. After serving as secretary to Manuel Quezon, then president of the territorial Senate, Quirino was elected to the Philippine house of Representatives House of Representatives in 1919, to the Senate in 1925 and 1931, and senator at large in 1941.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.
The electoral vote for Nixon was 219; for Kennedy, 303. In the House, Republicans won 174 seats; in the Senate, 36. In the midterm election of 1962, Republicans won 176 seats in the House, lost 4 in the Senate (for a total of 32), and won 17 governorships. Significant gains were the election of attractive gubernatorial candidates in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Oklahoma. GOP votes in the South for the House of Representatives rose from 606,000 in 1958 to 2,084,000 in 1962—a growth of 244 percent. In 1961, Texas sent its first Republican to the U S. Senate.
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