John Charles Mckenzie was a U.S. Representative

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 from Illinois

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Born on a farm near Elizabeth, Woodbine Township, Illinois, Mckenzie attended the common schools, and the normal school at Valparaiso, Indiana

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He taught school in Jo Daviess County for six years.
He engaged in the grain, flour, and feed business.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1890 and commenced the practice of his profession in Elizabeth, Illinois

Elizabeth, Illinois

Elizabeth is a village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. The population was 761 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Elizabeth is located at ....

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He served as director of the Elizabeth Exchange Bank.
He served as member of the State house of representatives 1892-1896.
He served as member of Illinois Claims Commission 1896-1900.
He served in the State senate from 1900 until his resignation on May 11, 1911, and was president pro tempore 1903-1905.

Mckenzie was elected as a Republican

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 to the Sixty-second

62nd United States Congress

- House of Representatives :* Democratic : 230 * Republican : 162* Socialist : 1* Independent : 1TOTAL members: 394-Senate:* President: James S...

 and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1925).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs (Sixty-eighth

68th United States Congress

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 Congress).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1924.
He was appointed in 1925 a member of the commission to report the most practical method of utilizing the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama

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He resumed the practice of his profession in Elizabeth, Illinois

Elizabeth, Illinois

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, until his death in that city on September 17, 1941.
He was interred in Elizabeth Cemetery.