Samuel Austin Kendall

Samuel Austin Kendall ( born November 1, 1859 in Greenville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, † January 8, 1933 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1933 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Kendall attended the public schools of his home. He then studied for some time in Valparaiso ( Indiana) and at Mount Union College in Alliance (Ohio ). Between 1876 and 1890 he worked as a teacher and school board. For five years he served as school board for the public schools of the city of Jefferson, Iowa. In 1890 he returned to the Somerset County in Pennsylvania, where he was active in the lumber business and in coal mining. He became vice president of the company Kendall Lumber Co. in Pittsburgh and president of the Preston Railroad Co. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1899 and 1903 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1918, Kendall was elected in 23 electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrats Bruce Foster Sterling on March 4, 1919. After six re- elections he could remain until his death on January 8, 1933 in Congress. Since 1923 he represented there as a successor of Henry Wilson Temple the 24th district of his state. In the 1932 elections Kendall has not been confirmed. During his time in Congress, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages as well as the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. Since 1929, the world economic crisis also influenced the work of the Congress.