Clay Stone Briggs

Clay Stone Briggs
Clay Stone Briggs
	Briggs in 1921
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; from Texas's 7th district
	In office; March 4, 1919 – April 29, 1933
Preceded by	Alexander W. Gregg
Succeeded by	Clark W. Thompson
Personal details
Born	January 8, 1876; Galveston, Texas
Died	April 29, 1933 (aged 57); Washington, D.C.
Political party	Democratic

Clay Stone Briggs (January 8, 1876 – April 29, 1933) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1919 through his death in 1933.

Early life

Briggs was born in Galveston, Texas on January 8, 1876. While a child, he went to both public and private schools. He attended University of Texas at Austin (where he was a member of the Nu Chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity), Harvard, and graduated from Yale Law School.

Shortly after graduating college, he ran for the Texas House of Representatives and served there from 1907-1909. He was also a judge in the tenth district in Texas until 1919, when he became a member of congress. Briggs ran for Texas's 7th congressional district and served from March 4, 1919, until he died in Washington, D.C. in 1933. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York.

Texas House of Representatives
Preceded by Thomas Masterson	Member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 23 (Galveston) 1907–1909	Succeeded by Daniel MacInerney
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Alexander W. Gregg	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 7th congressional district March 4, 1919 – April 29, 1933	Succeeded by Clark W. Thompson

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