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Show KENTUCKY SENATOR CALLED. Ollie M. James, Long Dominant Figure in Kentucky Politics, Is Dead. Washington. Ollie M. James of Kentucky died Wednesday morning, August 28, at a hospital in Baltimore, where he had been 111 for some time. Ollie M. James, one of the leaders of the Democratic party and long a dominant figure in Kentucky politics, served five consecutive terms as a member of congress from the First Kentucky district, was elected United States senator by the general assembly assem-bly in 1912, and was renominated for that office by a large vote at the statewide primary on August 3 last. "Big Ollie," as James was familiarly known to thousands, attended five Democratic national conventions as a delegate from Kentucky subsequent to the Chicago convention, and served as permanent chairman of the conventions con-ventions of 1912 and 1910, which nominated nom-inated President Wilson. |