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AFTER OPERATIONVeteran Arkansas Representative Known for Interest in Flood Control.Representative Otis T. Wingo of De-Queen, Ark., generally recognised a* one of the best parliamentarians in the House, died last night in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, the twenty-second member of the House in the Seventy-first Congress to die. He had been a member of Congress since 1913.Was Expected to Recover.Representative Wingo had entered Johns Hopkins Hospital two weeks ago. Only Saturday his office here announced that, due to overwork followir-g *u earlier operation this year. Representative Wingo had been forced to undergo treatment at Baltimore. On Monday the legislator underwent a gall bladder operation from which he failed to rally. It had been thought when he went toREPRESENTATIVE OTIS T. WINGO.the hospital that he was on, the road to recovery and would be able to go about his duties when the next session of Congress convened.The earlier operation this year was performed in June at the Naval Hospital here.Mr. Wingo was bom at DeQueen, Sevier County, Ark., on June 18, 1877. He was graduated from Valparaiso University Indiana and practiced law in his home town in Arkansas from 1900 until 1907, when he was elected to the , Arkansas Senate. In the House he was the ranking minority member of the Banking and Currency Committee and for the last several years had taken particular interest in flood control and farm relief legislation.In 1923 Mr. Wingo gained Nationwide attention when he declared there was “too much government and advocated the repeal of 40,000 laws so that “the processes of life would be more decent and orderly.”His widow and two children. Miss Janie ‘Blanche Wingo and Otis Theodo-dore Wingo, Jr., survive him. The family home here is at 3030 Sixteenth street.
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Washington Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Wed, Oct 22, 1930
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