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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KentuckyJohn Durrett CRADDOCK
(1881-1942)
CRADDOCK, John Durrett, a
Representative from Kentucky; born in Munfordville, Hart County,
Ky., October 26, 1881; attended the public schools of Hart County;
during the Philippine Insurrection and also during the Boxer
Uprising in China served as a corporal and sergeant in Troop F,
Third United States Cavalry; employed as a railroad engineer with
the Isthmian Canal Commission, Panama Canal Zone, 1904-1910;
returned to Munfordville, Ky., in 1910 and engaged in banking and
agricultural pursuits; member of the board of trustees of
Munfordville 1910-1925; assisted in organizing the Burley Tobacco
Growers Association in 1922 and served as director from 1922 to
1941; member of the Kentucky Mammoth Cave National Park Commission
1922-1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress
(March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; field man,
Federal Farm Board, Washington, D.C., in 1931 and 1932; agent of
the Kentucky Blue Grass Cooperative Association, Winchester, Ky.,
in 1933 and 1934; treasurer of Hart County at Munfordville, Ky., in
1934 and 1935; resumed his former pursuits; served as a member of
the State Agricultural Adjustment Administration Committee from
1939 until his death; died in Louisville, Ky., May 20, 1942;
interment in New Munfordville Cemetery, Munfordville, Ky.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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