a sign of the Republican Party's problems in mid-Depression. He was an unsuccessful candidate for a third term as senator in 1934. Retirement and death 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. References External links Political Graveyard Congress Bioguide 1861 births 1936 deaths Antioch College Claude W. Pettit College of Law alumni Ohio Constitutional Convention (1912) Ohio Northern University alumni People from Harrod, Ohio People from Yellow Springs, Ohio Presidents of Antioch College Republican National Committee chairs Republican Party United States senators from Ohio Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio 20th-century American politicians