Simeon Davison Fess
United States Senator from Ohio
In office March 4, 1923 – January 3, 1935
Preceded by	Atlee Pomerene
Succeeded by	Alvin V. Donahey
Personal details
Born	(1861-12-11)December 11, 1861 Harrod, Ohio
Died	December 23, 1936(1936-12-23) (aged 75) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Republican

Simeon Davison Fess (December 11, 1861 – December 23, 1936) was a Republican politician and educator from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.

Early life[link]

Born on a farm near Harrod, Ohio to Henry and Barbara (Herring) Fess, he was educated in country schools and graduated at Ohio Northern University of Ada in 1889 and married Eva C. Thomas the following year. After graduation he taught history and law at the university as well was working in the university administration from 1889-1896. Fess graduated from the law department at ONU in 1894 and served as dean of that department from 1896-1900. He then served as vice president of the university 1900-1902. He left for Illinois to become a graduate student and lecturer at the University of Chicago from 1902-1907. He then returned to Ohio and served as the president of Antioch College of Yellow Springs from 1907 to 1917.

Politics[link]

In 1912, while still serving at Antioch College, Fess was a delegate to the state constitutional convention as well as being elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1913-March 3, 1923 (6th District 1913-15, 7th District 1915-23). He served as chairman of the Committee on Education during the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses and chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee from 1918-1922. In 1922 he did not seek re-election, but ran for the U.S. Senate and won serving from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1935. He served as chairman of the Committee on the Library during Sixty-ninth through Seventy-second Congresses and as Republican Whip from 1929 to 1933. He also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee 1930-32. He was an unsuccessful candidate for a third term as Senator in 1934.

Retirement and death[link]

Fess was a Methodist, an editor, an author and a member of the Freemasons and Knights of Pythias. He died in Washington, D.C. at the age of 75 and is interred at Glen Forest Cemetery in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

External links[link]

• Political Graveyard
• Congress Bioguide

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Fang Island is an American indie rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island, and based in Brooklyn, New York. The group consists of guitarists Jason Bartell, Chris Georges and Nicholas Andrew Sadler, bassist Michael Jacober, and drummer Marc St. Sauveur. Their self-titled debut album on Sargent House was released in February 2010.

Biography[link]

Fang Island began in 2005 as an art project with original members, Philip Curcuru, Chris Georges, and Pete Watts, while attending Rhode Island School of Design.^[1][2] They were later joined by Bartell, St Sauveur, Jacober, and guitarist Nick Sadler, who had played in another Providence-based band, Daughters.^[3] The band got its name from an article in The Onion.^[3] Guitarist Jason Bartell recalled, "I think it was just a funny blip about Donald Rumsfeld having a secret hideaway, and it was on Fang Island. We like how it was sort of this, like, fictional space that we imagined our music was played on".^[3] The band describes their sound as "everyone high-fiving everyone"^[4] and their goal, according to Bartell, is to "make music for people who like music".^[5]

The band independently released Day of the Great Leap in 2007, followed by a second EP, Sky Gardens, in November 2008. Their song "The Absolute Place" was remixed by Chris Keating of Yeasayer in 2009.^[6] An unmastered version of the band's forthcoming full-length album leaked in early 2009 and was later named one of the year's top 10 albums by Brian Cook of The Stranger.^[7] In December, the group digitally released the album's lead single "Daisy", which features an electro-organ intro and chanted vocals.^[8] The song played during a series of commercials promoting the MTV reality show The Buried Life.^[9] The band's self-titled debut album was released on February 23, 2010. Adam Pfleider of AbsolutePunk described it as a "wild party" that "listeners will want to relive ... over and over again".^[10] Dan Goldin of Decoy Music praised the album for "successfully combining the luster of indie pop music with the technical eccentricities of progressive rock".^[11] Pitchfork Media's Ian Cohen called the music on Fang Island "honest and life-affirming and infectious".^[9] In March, the band performed at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas,^[3] and were named by social networking analytics site Next Big Sound as the artists who experienced the fastest growth in online fandom during the festival.^[12] While in Austin, the band also recorded three songs for a Daytrotter session.^[13] Fang Island entered the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart in April.^[14] The band opened for The Flaming Lips at several shows in July.^[15]

Band members[link]

• Jason Bartell - guitarist
• Chris Georges - guitarist
• Marc St. Sauveur - drummer

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

EPs[link]

Music videos[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Fang Island on Myspace
• Fang Island on Twitter
• Fang Island at Sargent House
• The Onion article from which Fang Island took its name
• Fang Island on Waste Water Music (German Site)