KENDRICK, John Benjamin (1857-1933)
Democrat of Wyoming 
0th congressional district
Served in Senate 1917-1933
Biography
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.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
