caption district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party term_end preceded birth_date term_start image article_title state name restingplace alma_mater
1920 photo 8th thomas b. fletcher 8 february 1957 findlay , ohio biglick township , hancock county , ohio republican march 3 , 1925 john a. key 21 august 1870 march 4 , 1919 r. clint cole cropped from npcc.01539.jpg r. clint cole
 ohio raymond clinton cole bright cemetery findlay college ohio northern university pettit college of law
r. clint cole

raymond clinton cole -lrb- august 21 , 1870 - february 8 , 1957 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from ohio , brother of ralph dayton cole .
born in biglick township , near findlay , ohio , cole attended the common schools and findlay college , findlay , ohio .
he taught school nine years .
he was graduated from the law department of ohio northern university at ada in 1900 .
he was admitted to the bar of ohio the same year and commenced practice in findlay , ohio , in 1901 .
he served as member of the ohio national guard 1903-1913 .
he served as city solicitor 1912-1916 .
cole was elected as a republican to the sixty-sixth , sixty-seventh , and sixty-eighth congresses -lrb- march 4 , 1919-march 3 , 1925 -rrb- .
he served as chairman of the committee on elections no. 1 -lrb- sixty-eighth congress -rrb- .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the sixty-ninth congress .
he resumed the practice of law .
he died in findlay , ohio , on february 8 , 1957 .
he was interred in bright cemetery .
