Abraham Lincoln Keister

Abraham Lincoln Keister ( born September 10, 1852 in Upper Tyrone, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † May 26 1917 in Scottdale, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1917 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Abraham Keister attended the public schools of his home. Then he studied until 1874 at the Otterbein University in Westerville (Ohio ). After a subsequent law degree in 1878 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Columbus to work in this profession. In 1882 he returned to the Fayette County back in Pennsylvania. There he was active among others in the coke. In 1889 he founded the First National Bank of Scottdale, whose president he then was 28 years long. In 1901, he also founded the Scottdale Savings & Trust Co., with which he remained until his death. Keister also sat for over 20 years in the school board of Scottdale. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Keister in the 22nd electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Curtis Hussey Gregg on March 4, 1913. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 two legislative sessions. In 1913 the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. In 1916, Keister has not been nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he continued his previous activities. He died on 26 May 1917 in Scottdale, where he was also buried.