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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WyomingKENDRICK, John Benjamin
(1857—1933)
Senate Years of Service:
1917-1933
Party:
Democrat
KENDRICK, John Benjamin, a Senator from Wyoming; born near Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Tex., September 6, 1857; attended the public schools; moved to Wyoming in 1879 and settled on a ranch near Sheridan, where he engaged in the raising of cattle and sheep; member, State senate 1910-1914; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1913; Governor of Wyoming 1915-1917, when he resigned, having been elected Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1916; reelected in 1922 and 1928 and served from March 4, 1917, until his death at Sheridan, Wyo., November 3, 1933; chairman, Committee on Canadian Relations (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventy-third Congress); interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Georgen, Cynde A. One Cowboy’s Dream: John B. Kendrick, His Family, Home, & Ranching Empire
. Virginia Beach, Virg.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004; Carroll, Eugene. “Wyoming’s Senator John Benjamin Kendrick: The Politics of Oil, Public Land and National Park Legislation in the 1920s.” Annals of Wyoming
58 (Fall 1986): 22-29.
Carroll, Eugene T. “John B. Kendrick, Cowpoke to Senator, 1879-1917.” Annals of Wyoming
54 (Spring 1982): 51-57.
___. “John B. Kendrick’s Fight for Western Water Legislation, 1917-1933.” Annals of Wyoming
50 (Fall 1978): 319-33.
___. “Wyoming’s Senator John Benjamin Kendrick: The Politics of Oil, Public Land and National Park Legislation in the 1920s.” Annals of Wyoming
58 (Fall 1986): 22-29.
Garst, Doris Shannon, and Warren Garst. Cowboys and Cattle Trails
. Chicago: Wheeler Publishing Co., 1948.
Georgen, Cynde A. One Cowboy’s Dream: John B. Kendrick, His Family, Home, & Ranching Empire
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U.S. Congress. House. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of John B. Kendrick, Late a Senator from Wyoming
. 73d Cong., 2d sess., 1934. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1935.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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