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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaAugustine Bernard KELLEY
(1883-1957)
KELLEY, Augustine Bernard,
a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New Baltimore, Somerset
County, Pa., July 9, 1883; attended a parochial school, Greensburg
(Pa.) High School, and the United States Military Academy, West
Point, N.Y., in 1904 and 1905; studied mining engineering with
International Correspondence School 1907-1912; began business
career in 1905 as clerk with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., and
later became superintendent of the H.C. Frick Coke Co., and was
also associated with other coke and coal companies; member of the
Greensburg (Pa.) Board of Education in 1935 and 1936; elected as a
Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and to the eight succeeding
Congresses and served from January 3, 1941, until his death in
Bethesda, Md., November 20, 1957; chairman, Committee on Invalid
Pensions (Seventy-ninth Congress); interment in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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