Edward Herbert Rees was a U.S. Representative

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 from Kansas

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. Born on a farm near Emporia, Kansas

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, Rees attended the public schools and the Kansas State Teachers' College at Emporia. He taught school in Lyon County, Kansas

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, from 1909 to 1911 and served as clerk of the court of Lyon County from 1912 to 1918.

Rees studied law, was admitted to the bar

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 in 1915, and began a law practice in Emporia. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits. Serving as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 1927 to 1933, he was also a member of the Kansas Senate from 1933 to 1935 and a member of the Kansas Judicial Council from 1933 to 1937. Rees was elected as a Republican

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 to the Seventy-fifth

75th United States Congress

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 Congress and to the 11 succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1961). He served as chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service (Eightieth

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 and Eighty-third

83rd United States Congress

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Congresses).

Rees was not a candidate for renomination in 1960. He resumed the practice of law in Emporia, where he died on October 25, 1969. He was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in Emporia.

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