Porter J. McCumber

Porter James McCumber ( born February 3, 1858 in Crete, Will County, Illinois, † May 18 1933 in Washington DC ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of North Dakota in the U.S. Senate.

In the year of Porter McCumbers birth his parents moved with him from Illinois to Rochester, Minnesota. There he attended the public schools and worked as a teacher before he studied law at the University of Michigan. After graduating in 1880 he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Wahpeton Dakota Territory. In 1885 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Territory, in 1887 the Senate. Between 1889 and 1891 he was a prosecutor in Richland County.

In 1898, he prevailed in the election for U.S. Senate against the Democratic incumbent William N. Roach. McCumber moved on March 4, 1899 in the Congress and remained there after multiple re-election until March 3, 1923 In 1922 he was no longer set up by his party.; the nomination went to the former governor Lynn Frazier. During his time in the Senate he was chairman and member of several committees; In 1922 he authored with Congressman Joseph W. Fordney draft influenced by isolationism that time the Customs Act, which became known as Fordney - McCumber Tariff Act.

After his retirement from the Senate McCumber worked as a lawyer in Washington. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge appointed him in 1925 in the International Joint Commission, which had the mandate to resolve any discrepancies between the United States and Canada on the use of the shared boundary waters. He was a member of the Commission until his death in 1933. He was buried first in a mausoleum on the Arlington National Cemetery; when the building was later demolished, also McCumbers 's remains had to be relocated. His subsequent burial place is unknown.