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What was the occupation of Francis H. Case from 1920 to 1925?
Francis H . Case Francis Higbee Case ( December 9 , 1896June 22 , 1962 ) was an American journalist and politician who served for 25 years as a member of the United States Congress from South Dakota . He was a Republican . Biography . Case was born in Everly , Iowa , the son of Mary Ellen ( née Grannis ) and the Reverend Herbert Llywellen Case . He moved with his parents to Sturgis , South Dakota at the age of 13 . After graduating from the public schools he attended Dakota Wesleyan University and Northwestern University graduating in 1920 . During World War I he served in the United States Marine Corps , and subsequently he served in United States Army Reserve and the Marine Corps Reserve . Immediately after finishing college he began a 15-year career as a newspaper editor . Until 1922 he was the assistant editor of the Epworth Herald in Chicago . From 1922 to 1925 he was the telegraph writer and editorial writer for the Daily Journal in Rapid City , South Dakota . From 1925 to 1931 he was the editor and publisher of the Hot Springs Star in Hot Springs , South Dakota . Finally from 1931 until he entered Congress he was the editor and publisher of the Custer Chronicle in Custer , South Dakota . U.S . House of Representatives ( 1937–1951 ) . Case entered politics in 1934 when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives but lost . In 1936 , however , he was elected to the U.S . House and served in it for seven terms . Before the United States entered World War II he was a moderate supporter of isolationism . In 1947-8 , he served on the Herter Committee . Case left the House in 1951 when he became a senator . U.S . Senate ( 1951–1962 ) . Case decided to run for the Senate in the 1950 election , and defeated the incumbent John Chandler Gurney in the Republican primary . In the general election he easily defeated Democrat John A . Engel receiving 63% of the vote . In his first term in the Senate he served as chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia from 1953 to 1955 , and was a supporter of greater self-rule in the district . In 1954 he served on a committee to investigate censuring Senator Joseph McCarthy . Case was reelected to the Senate in 1956 , in a very close race against Democrat Kenneth Holum receiving 50.8% of the vote . Case was known as a moderate Senator whose main goals were to expand Americas road and waterway infrastructure , particularly in South Dakota . Lake Francis Case , along the Missouri River , is named after him , as is a bridge on I-395 in Washington , D.C . Case voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 , but did not vote on the 24th Amendment to the U.S . Constitution . Case served in the Senate from 1951 until his death . He died of a heart attack at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda , Maryland on June 22 , 1962 . His death occurred several months before the expiration of his second term in the Senate . he was buried at Black Hills National Cemetery in Sturgis .