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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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KENNEDY, John Lauderdale, a Representative from Nebraska;
born in Ayrshire, Scotland, October 27, 1854;
attended the public schools of Scotland;
immigrated to the United States and settled in La Salle County, Ill., in 1874;
engaged in agricultural pursuits;
attended Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., in 1879 and was graduated from the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1882;
commenced the practice of law in Omaha, Nebr., in 1882;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Omaha, Nebr.;
member and chairman pro tempore of the board of fire and police commissioners for the city of Omaha in 1907 and 1908;
chairman of the Republican State committee in 1911 and 1912;
unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1916;
Federal fuel administrator for Nebraska from October 1917 to March 1919;
president of the United States National Bank 1920-1925;
president of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce in 1924 and 1925;
retired from active pursuits in January 1933 and moved to Pacific Palisades, Calif., where he died August 30, 1946;
interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, Calif.
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