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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South DakotaKYLE, James Henderson
(1854—1901)
Senate Years of Service:
1891-1901; 1901-1901
Party:
Populist; Republican
KYLE, James Henderson, a Senator from South Dakota; born near Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, on February 24, 1854; attended the public schools; completed a course of civil engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1871; graduated from Oberlin (Ohio) College in 1878; prepared for admission to the bar, but entered the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., and graduated in 1882; pastor of Congregational churches in Echo and Salt Lake City, Utah, 1882-1885; moved to Ipswich and later to Aberdeen, S.Dak.; pastor; financial secretary of Yankton College; elected to the State senate in 1890; elected as an Independent to the United States Senate in 1891; reelected in 1897 and served from March 4, 1891, until his death; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Fifty-third, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses), Committee to Establish the University of the United States (Fifty-fourth Congress); chairman of the United States Industrial Commission 1898-1901; died in Aberdeen, Brown County, S.Dak., July 1, 1901; interment in Riverside Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Pressler, Larry. “James H. Kyle.” In U.S. Senators from the Prairie
, pp. 31-40. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1982; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses
. 57th Cong., 1st sess., 1902. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902.
Pressler, Larry. “James H. Kyle.” In U.S. Senators from the Prairie
, pp. 31-40. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1982.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of James H. Kyle (Late a Senator from South Dakota), Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives
. 57th Cong., 1st sess., 1901-1902. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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