Berry, George Leonard, 1882-1948

found: NUCMC data from Wayne State Univ. Walter P. Reuther Lib. for International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America. Local 2 (Detroit, Mich.). Records, 1899-1961(George Berry)

found: WW labor, 1946(Berry, George Leonard, Int'l Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North Am.; joined 1898; b. Sept. 12, 1882, Lee Valley, Hawkins Co., Tenn.; s. Thomas Jefferson and Cornelia Trent B.; m. Marie Margaret Gehres, 1907; home: Pressmen's Home, Tenn.)

found: Printers in Appalachia, c1993:p. 1 (George L. Berry; president of IPPAU of NA from 1907 to his death, 1948)

found: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website, viewed July 28, 2014(Berry, George Leonard, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Lee Valley, Hawkins County, Tenn., September 12, 1882; attended the common schools; employed as a pressman from 1891 to 1907 in various cities; served during the First World War in the American Expeditionary Forces, with the rank of major, in the Railroad Transportation Engineers 1918-1919; president of the International Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America 1907-1948; also engaged in agricultural pursuits and banking; delegate to many national and international labor conventions; appointed on May 6, 1937, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nathan L. Bachman and served from May 6, 1937, to November 8, 1938, when a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1938 to fill the vacancy; resumed the presidency of the International Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America, and also his agricultural pursuits at Pressmen's Home, Tenn., until his death on December 4, 1948; interment in Pressmen's Home Cemetery.)