Clay Stone Briggs

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Clay Stone Briggs

|image = Clay Stone Briggs.jpg

|caption = Briggs in 1921

|state = Texas

|district = {{ushr|Texas|7|7th}}

|term_start = March 4, 1919

|term_end = April 29, 1933

|predecessor = Alexander W. Gregg

|successor = Clark W. Thompson

|birth_name = Clay Stone Bridges

|resting_place = Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1876|1|8}}

|birth_place = Galveston, Texas

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1933|4|29|1876|1|8}}

|death_place = Washington, D.C.

|party = Democratic

}}

Clay Stone Briggs (January 8, 1876 – April 29, 1933) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1919 through his death in 1933.

Early life

Briggs was born in Galveston, Texas, on January 8, 1876. While a child, he went to both public and private schools. He attended University of Texas at Austin (where he was a member of the Nu chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity), Harvard, and graduated from Yale Law School.

Political career and death

Shortly after graduating college, he ran for the Texas House of Representatives and served there from 1907 to 1909. He was also a judge in the tenth district in Texas until 1919, when he became a member of congress. Briggs ran for Texas's 7th congressional district and served from March 4, 1919, until he died in Washington, D.C., in 1933.

He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York.