Samuel Austin Kendall was a Republican

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Samuel A. Kendall was born in Greenville Township, Pennsylvania

Greenville Township, Pennsylvania

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. He attended the public schools and was a student for some time at Valparaiso, Indiana

Valparaiso, Indiana

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, and at Mount Union College

Mount Union College

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 in Alliance, Ohio

Alliance, Ohio

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. He taught school from 1876 to 1890 and served five years as superintendent of the public schools of Jefferson, Iowa

Jefferson, Iowa

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. He returned to Somerset County, Pennsylvania

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, in 1890 and engaged in the lumber business and the mining of coal

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. He was vice president of the Kendall Lumber Co. of Pittsburgh, and president of the Preston Railroad Co.  He served as member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1899 to 1903.

Kendall was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth

66th United States Congress

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 and to the six succeeding Congresses and served until his death. He had been unsuccessful for reelection in 1932

United States House election, 1932

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, and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the House Office Building

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 in Washington, D.C.

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, before his successor J. Buell Snyder

J. Buell Snyder

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 was sworn in. Interment in Hochstetler Cemetery, Greenville Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard