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JOSEPH WINGATE, an American public official, born in Brownsville, Tenn., in 1869. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1890. In the same year he was admitted to the bar.
After practicing for 4 years in Brownsville, he removed to St. Louis, and from 1900 to 1904 was circuit attorney of that city. During his term of office he exposed a vast amount of political and official corruption and prosecuted numerous bribery cases which attracted wide attention. In 1905 he was elected governor of Missouri. He was the author of many reform laws during his term of office. In 1913 he was appointed solicitor for the United States Department of State and from 1914 was chief counsel for the Interstate Commerce Commission.
He was also general counsel for the St.
Louis Chamber of Commerce. In 1918 he was the Democratic primary nominee for United States senator, but was defeated.
FOLKESTONE (fōk'ston), a fortified seaport town of England, in Kent co., 62 miles S. E. by E. of London, and 7 W. by S. of Dover. It possesses a spacious harbor and fine pier whence the tidal steamers sail twice a day to Boulogne on the French coast. It was the birthplace of William Harvey, the FOLKLORE discoverer of the circulation of the blood. Pop. about 35,000. FOLKLORE, the science which emblood. Pop. about 35,000.