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Samuel A. Kendall

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Samuel A. Kendall
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 24th district
In office
March 4, 1923 – January 8, 1933
Preceded byHenry Wilson Temple
Succeeded byJ. Buell Snyder
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 23rd district
In office
March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1923
Preceded byBruce Foster Sterling
Succeeded byWilliam Irvin Swoope
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
In office
1899–1903
Personal details
Born(1859-11-01)November 1, 1859
Greenville Township, Pennsylvania
DiedJanuary 8, 1933(1933-01-08) (aged 73)
Washington, D.C.
Political partyRepublican
Alma materMount Union College

Samuel Austin Kendall (November 1, 1859 – January 8, 1933) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

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Samuel A. Kendall was born in Greenville Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools and was a student for some time at Valparaiso, Indiana, and at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. He taught school from 1876 to 1890 and served five years as superintendent of the public schools of Jefferson, Iowa. He returned to Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in 1890 and engaged in the lumber business and the mining of coal. He was vice president of the Kendall Lumber Co. of Pittsburgh, and president of the Preston Railroad Co. He served as member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1899 to 1903.

Kendall was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served until his death. He had been unsuccessful for reelection in 1932, and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the House Office Building in Washington, D.C., before his successor J. Buell Snyder was sworn in.[1] He is interred in Hochstetler Cemetery, Greenville Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

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References

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  1. ^ "Milestones, Jan. 16, 1933". Time Magazine. January 16, 2009. Archived from the original on January 14, 2009. Retrieved June 17, 2009.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district

1919–1923
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district

1923–1933
Succeeded by