James D. Preston was born in Washington, D.C., on August 2, 1876. He was schooled in the Washington area, and then became associated with the Washington bureaus of the Boston Journal and the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mr. Preston was elected Superintendent of the Senate Press Gallery on March 25, 1897, and stayed in this position for thirty-five years until he was transferred to the office of Librarian of the Senate of the United States. Mr. Preston's whole Washington career encompassed a total of sixty years.
