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KETTNER, William, a Representative from California;
born in Ann Arbor, Mich., November 20, 1864;
moved with his parents to Minnesota in 1873 and settled in St. Paul;
attended the public schools;
moved to California in 1884 and lived for several years at Julian, Santa Ana, and Visalia, where he engaged in mining, the hotel business, newspaper work, and the insurance business;
member of the California National Guard in 1888;
city councilman of Visalia, Calif., in 1900;
moved to San Diego, Calif., in 1907 and engaged in insurance work, real estate business, and banking;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1921);
was not a candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress;
delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1916 and 1924;
resumed the real estate and insurance businesses;
died in San Diego, Calif., November 11, 1930;
interment in Greenwood Memorial Park Cemetery.
Bibliography
Duvall, Lucille Clark. William Kettner: San Diegos Dynamic Congressman. Journal of San Diego History 25 (Summer 1979): 191-207; Jensen, Joan M. The Politics and History of William Kettner. Journal of San Diego History 11 (June 1965): 26-36.
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