John Kerr Hendrick

John Kerr Hendrick ( born October 10, 1849 Caswell County, North Carolina, † June 20, 1921 in Paducah, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hendrick drew even in his childhood with his parents in the Logan County, Kentucky. Soon after, the family moved to the Todd County on. Hendrick attended private schools and the Bethel College in Russellville. In 1869 he settled in Crittenden County, where he worked as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in 1874 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Smithland in this profession. Between 1878 and 1886, was Hendrick prosecutor in Livingston County.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1887 to 1891 he sat in the Senate from Kentucky. In June 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, was nominated to the President Grover Cleveland for a second term. In the congressional elections of 1894 Hendrick was the first electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Johnson Stone on March 4, 1895. Since he was not nominated in 1896 by his party for re-election, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Hendrick practiced law in Paducah. There he is also deceased in June 1921.

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