John Kerr Hendrick

John Kerr Hendrick

John Kerr Hendrick (born October 10, 1849 in Caswell County , North Carolina , †  June 20, 1921 in Paducah , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Hendrick moved to Logan County , Kentucky with his parents when he was a child . Soon after, the family moved to Todd County . Hendrick attended private schools and Bethel College in Russellville . In 1869 he settled in Crittenden County , where he worked as a teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1874, he began to work in this profession in Smithland . Between 1878 and 1886, Hendrick was a district attorney in Livingston County .

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1887 to 1891 . In June 1888 he was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis , where President Grover Cleveland was nominated for a second term. In the congressional election of 1894 , Hendrick was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded William Johnson Stone on March 4, 1895 . Since he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party in 1896, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1897 .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, John Hendrick practiced as a lawyer in Paducah. He died there in June 1921.

Web links

Commons : John Kerr Hendrick  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• John Kerr Hendrick in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Kerr Hendrick in the database of Find a Grave (English)