Otis Halbert Holmes was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Washington, and grandson of Dudley Chase Haskell.

Born in Cresco, Iowa

Cresco, Iowa

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, Holmes moved in 1915 to Walla Walla, Washington

Walla Walla, Washington

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, where he attended the public schools.
He was graduated from Whitman College

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, Walla Walla, Washington, in 1923 and from Columbia University

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, New York City, in 1927.
He taught economics at Ellensburg High School

Ellensburg High School

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 (Washington) in 1924, then taught at Central Washington College of Education at Ellensburg in 1925.
He taught at Columbia University in 1928 and 1928, then returned to the faculty of Central Washington College from 1930-1942.
From 1934 to 1942 he was also a livestock rancher and operator.

Holmes was elected as a Republican

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 to the Seventy-eighth

78th United States Congress

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 and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1959).
He was not a candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth

86th United States Congress

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 Congress.
He died in Yakima, Washington

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, July 27, 1977, and was buried in Terrace Heights Memorial Park.

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