John Vandling Lesher

John Vandling Lesher ( born July 27, 1866 Union County, Pennsylvania, † May 3, 1932 in Danville, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1921 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born on a farm John Lesher attended the common schools and the State Normal School in Bloomsburg. He then worked for some time as a teacher. In 1897 he graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg. Between 1898 and 1902 he served in various units of the National Guard of his State, in which he brought it up to the captain. After a simultaneous study of law and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began to work in Sunbury in this profession. In the meantime he was also deputy district attorney in Northumberland County. He also worked in the banking industry as well as in the real estate industry.

Politically, Lesher member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1912 he was in the 16th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Geiser McHenry on March 4, 1913. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1921 four legislative sessions. In this time of the First World War fell. In addition, the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in those years.

In 1920, John Lesher was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in Sunbury. He died on 3 May 1932 in Danville.