William Kent (U.S. Congressman)

William Kent ( born March 29, 1864 in Chicago, Illinois, † March 13, 1928 in Kentfield, California ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1917 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1874, William Kent moved with his parents in the Marin County in California, where he attended private schools. Between 1881 and 1883 he graduated from the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven ( Connecticut ). Then he studied until 1887 at Yale University. Then he returned to Chicago, where he worked in the real estate industry and in the cattle trade. Between 1895 and 1897 he sat on the city council of Chicago. Politically, he was part of the progressive wing of the Republican Party. From 1907 he lived again in Marin County.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Kent was in the second electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Duncan E. McKinlay on March 4, 1911. After two re- election as an independent candidate, he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1913 three legislative periods. Since 1913 he represented there as the successor of John E. Raker the first district of his state. In 1916 he gave up another candidacy.

Between 1917 and 1920 William Kent was a member of the Federal Customs Commission. In the following years he wrote political and scientific articles. He died on 13 March 1928 in Kentfield.