Elva Roscoe Kendall was a U.S. Representative

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 from Kentucky

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Born near Carlisle, Kentucky

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, Kendall attended the public schools, the Young Men's Christian Association School of Accountancy at New York City, and National University

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 at Washington, D.C.

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. He engaged as a public accountant and tax consultant, and was also interested in agricultural pursuits.

During the First World War, Kendall served in the personnel office of the Sixty-first Division.
He was employed as a field auditor for the United States Treasury Department 1922-1927.

Kendall was elected as a Republican

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 to the Seventy-first

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 Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second

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 Congress. He then resumed agricultural pursuits and his profession as a public accountant, as well as engaging in the real estate business. He was a resident of Carlisle, Kentucky

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, until his death on January 29, 1968.