John J. Kindred

John Joseph Kindred (* July 15, 1864 in Courtland, Virginia; † October 23, 1937 in Astoria, New York) was an American physician, lawyer and politician. He represented between 1911 and 1913 and 1921-1929 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Private life

John Joseph Kindred was born during the Civil War at Courtland. He attended local schools, the Randolph -Macon College in Ashland ( Virginia) and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Then he taught in the years 1886 and 1887 in Virginia. Kindred graduated 1889 at the Hospital College of Medicine in Louisville (Kentucky) and started practicing City in the same year in New York. In 1892 he received his degree in mental diseases at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He built several psychiatric hospitals in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. After his first term in Congress, he worked in agriculture and built houses. He made 1919 his law degree in 1926 and received his license to practice law. Kindred was 1930-1937 again as a doctor and worked between 1933 and 1937 as a professor of legal medicine ( medical jurisprudence ) at the John B. Stetson University in DeLand (Florida ). He died on October 23, 1937 in Astoria and was then buried in the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie.

Political career

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1910, Kindred was in the 14th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Willett Jr. on March 4, 1911. Since he gave up for reelection in 1912, he retired after March 3, 1913 from the Congress. He ran in 1920 in the second electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1921, the successor of Charles P. Caldwell. He was re-elected three times in a row. Since he gave up for reelection in 1928, he retired after the March 3, 1929 out of the Congress.