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Tilson, John (Quillin) (1866–1958)| US Republican representative. He challenged the Republican Party's candidate for Connecticut and was elected to the US House of Representatives (1909–11, 1915–31). Republican majority leader (1925–31), his ambitions to be speaker were thwarted in 1931 and he opened a Washington law office, later serving as chairman of Save the Children. |
| Tilson was born in Clear Branch, Tennessee. After working his way through Yale law school, he practised law in New Haven (1897), and was a Connecticut representative (1905–08). |
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