Farrington, Joseph R. (Joseph Rider), 1897-1954

found: The American Samoan Commission's visit to Samoa, 1931:t.p. (Joseph R. Farrington)

found: OCLC, Oct. 22, 2001(hdg.: Farrington, Joseph Rider, 1897-1954; predominant usage: Joseph R. Farrington; usage: Joseph Rider Farrington; J.R. Farrington)

found: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, August 13, 2013(Farrington, Joseph Rider (1897-1954); husband of Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington, a Delegate from the Territory of Hawaii; born in Washington, D.C., October 15, 1897, and while still an infant moved with his parents to Hawaii; attended Punahou Academy, Honolulu, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison; left college at the close of his junior year in June 1918 and enlisted in the United States Army; commissioned a second lieutenant of Field Artillery in September and was discharged in December 1918; returned to the University of Wisconsin and graduated in 1919; reporter on the staff of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia in 1919 and in Washington, D.C., 1920-1923; returned to Honolulu to become associated with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd., and was president and general manager from 1939 until his death; secretary to the Hawaii Legislative Commission in 1933; member of the Territorial senate, 1934-1942; elected as a Republican Delegate to the Seventy-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943 until his death in Washington, D.C., June 19, 1954)