
Atlee Pomerene (6 December 1863 – 12 November 1937) was a Democratic US Senator from Ohio from 4 March 1911 to 4 March 1923, succeeding Charles W.F. Dick and preceding Simeon D. Fess.
Biography[]
Atlee Pomerene was born in Berlin, Ohio in 1863, and he became a lawyer in Canton in 1886. He served in a variety of city, county, and state positions before serving as Lieutenant-Governor from 9 January to 3 March 1911 and as US Senator from 4 March 1911 to 4 March 1923, and Calvin Coolidge appointed him as a special prosecutor to investigate the Teapot Dome scandal, despite his own associations with corruption. He died in Cleveland in 1937.