John L. Kennedy

John Lauderdale Kennedy ( born October 27, 1854 in Ayrshire, Scotland, † August 30 1946 in Pacific Palisades, California ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1907 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Kennedy grew up in his native Scotland, where he attended the public schools. In 1874 he came to the United States, where he settled in LaSalle County, Illinois. There he worked in agriculture, but he continued simultaneously continuing his education. He attended Knox College in 1879, the Galesburg. Then he studied until 1882 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City Jura. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began in Omaha to work in his new profession.

Kennedy was a member of the Republican Party. In 1904 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Gilbert Monell Hitchcock of the Democratic Party on March 4, 1905. However, it succeeded Hitchcock, to regain his seat in the elections of 1906. Thus, Kennedy was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1907.

After the end of his time in Congress, Kennedy again worked as a lawyer in Omaha. He was from 1907 to 1908 also a senior member of the police and fire commission this city. Between 1911 and 1912 he was chairman of the Republicans in Nebraska. In the 1916 elections, John Kennedy ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. During the First World War, Kennedy was responsible for the fuel control or rationing in Nebraska ( Federal Fuel Administrator). From 1920 to 1925 John Kennedy served as President of the United States National Bank. He also led in the years 1924 and 1925, the Chamber of Commerce of Omaha.

In January 1933, John Kennedy and ended his professional activity and withdrew into retirement by Pacific Palisades. There he died in 1946 at the age of 91 years.