VAILE, WILLIAM NEWELL, a Representative from Colorado; born in Kokomo, Howard County, Ind.,
June 22, 1876; moved with his parents to Denver, Colo., in 1881; attended the
public schools and was graduated from Yale University in 1898; during the
Spanish-American War served as a private in the First Regiment of the
Connecticut Volunteer Field Artillery from May 19, 1898, to October 25, 1898;
studied law at the University of Colorado and Harvard Law School; was admitted
to the bar in 1901 and commenced the practice of law in Denver, Colo.; served
on the Mexican border from June 28 to December 1, 1916, as a second lieutenant
in the First Separate Battalion, National Guard of Colorado; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served
from March 4, 1919, until his death in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo., on
July 2, 1927; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the
Treasury (Sixty-eighth Congress); interment in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver,
Colo.
