John R. Farr

John Richard Farr ( born July 18, 1857 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, † December 11, 1933 ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1919, and in 1921 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Farr attended the public schools of his home and then the Phillips Academy in Andover. He then graduated from Lafayette College in Easton. In his youth he was delivering newspapers. Later he worked as a printer and publisher. He also went into the real estate business. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. He sat for four years in the school committee of the city Scranton. Between 1891 and 1899 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, which he became president in 1899. In 1908 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Farr was but then in the tenth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas David Nicholls on March 4, 1911. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1919 four legislative sessions. This period was, among other things, the First World War. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

1918 John Farr lost in the congressional elections to Democrat Patrick McLane. He put but against the outcome of the election is a contradiction. As this has been complied with, he could take over and finish the legislative session until March 3 of the same year on February 25, 1921 his old seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. This period consisted of just one week. Prior to the elections of 1920, John Farr was not nominated for another candidacy.

In the following years he was again active in the real estate industry in Scranton. 1930 and 1932 he tried unsuccessfully to each his party's nomination for the respective congressional election. John Farr died on December 11, 1933 in his hometown of Scranton.