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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaJohn Crain KUNKEL
(1898-1970)
KUNKEL, John Crain,
(grandson of John Christian Kunkel, great-grandson of John
Sergeant, and great-great-grandson of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant
and Robert Whitehill), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Harrisburg, July 21, 1898; attended Harrisburg Academy, Harrisburg,
Pa. and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; graduated from Yale
University, New Haven, Conn., 1916; graduated from the law
department of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1926; during
the First World War served in the Students’ Army Training
Corps; was admitted to the bar in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania in
1926; banker; farmer; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth
and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3,
1951); was not a candidate for renomination in 1950 but was an
unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for United States
Senator; county commissioner of Dauphin County, Pa., 1952-1956;
elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress, by special
election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States
Representative Walter M. Mumma; reelected to the two succeeding
Congresses and served until his resignation on December 30, 1966
(May 16, 1961- December 30, 1966); was not a candidate for
reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966; died on July 27,
1970, in Harrisburg, Pa.; interment in Harrisburg Cemetery,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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