Tasker Lowndes Oddie (1870 - 1950)

Born 20 Oct 1870 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Daisy (Rendall) Oddie — married 30 Nov 1916 in Nevada, United States

Died 17 Feb 1950 at age 79 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States

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Preceded by 11th Governor Denver S. Dickerson Preceded by Charles Henderson

Tasker Oddie 12th Governor of Nevada 1911—1915 US Senator (Class 3) from Nevada 1921—1933

Succeeded by 13th Governor Emmet D. Boyle Succeeded by Pat McCarran

Biography

Tasker Oddie is Notable.

Nevada Governor, US Senator. Served as Governor of Nevada from 1911 to 1915. Also served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1921 to 1933.

The son of Henry Meigs Oddie (1837-1898) and Ellen Gibson Prout, Tasker was born in 1870 in Brooklyn, New York, where he went to law school. He moved to Nevada to become the attorney and business agent for the wealthy Stokes family. He made his fortune in the 1900 silver boom in Tonopah.

On March 17, 1911, he signed the city charter for Las Vegas. During his tenure, women got the right to vote, a state motor vehicle law was sanctioned, mining safety legislation was endorsed, and there were improvements to workmen's compensation benefits

He was a senator from 1921 to 1933, losing his bid for a third term to Pat McCarran in 1932. Oddie won the Republican Senate nomination in 1938 but was defeated again by McCarran by a considerably wider margin than in 1932.

Oddie died on February 17, 1950, in San Francisco at the age of 79. He is interred at Lone Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Nevada. Mount Oddie near Tonopah is named after him, as is Oddie Boulevard in Reno and Sparks.

Sources

• Find A Grave Memorial# 6712587
• Tasker Oddie on Wikipedia
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress