Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-2005

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-2005

Biographies 1357 JUDSON, Andrew Thompson, a Representative from January 1, 1921, and served until December 31, 1922, when Connecticut; born in Eastford, Windham County, Conn., No- he resigned; resumed the practice of law until his death vember 29, 1784; received a limited schooling; studied law; in Chicago, Ill., on December 4, 1929; interment in Mount was admitted to the bar in 1806; moved to Montpelier, Vt., Olive Cemetery. where he began the practice of law; returned to Connecticut and settled in Canterbury in 1809; State’s attorney for Windham County 1819-1833; member of the State house K of representatives 1822-1825; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1835, KADING, Charles August, a Representative from Wis- until July 4, 1836, when he resigned; appointed by President consin; born in Lowell, Dodge County, Wis., January 14, Jackson United States judge for the district of Connecticut 1874; attended the country schools, Lowell graded school, June 28, 1836, and served until his death in Canterbury, Horicon High School, and the University of Wisconsin at Conn., March 17, 1853; interment in Hyde Cemetery. Madison; was graduated from the law department of Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind., in 1900; was admit- JULIAN, George Washington, a Representative from ted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Indiana; born near Centerville, Wayne County, Ind., on May Watertown, Wis.; also interested in agricultural pursuits; 5, 1817; attended the common schools; studied law; was city attorney of Watertown 1905-1912; district attorney for admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Dodge County, Wis., 1906-1912; mayor of Watertown 1914- Greenfield, Ind.; member of the State house of representa- 1916; elected as a Republican to the Seventieth, Seventy- tives in 1845; delegate to the Buffalo Free-Soil Convention first, and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1927-March in 1848; elected as a Free-Soiler to the Thirty-first Congress 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate for resumed the practice of law; died in Watertown, Wis., June election in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; unsuccessful 19, 1956; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Free-Soil ticket in 1852; delegate to the Republican National KAHN, Florence Prag (wife of Julius Kahn), a Rep- Convention in 1856; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- resentative from California; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, November 9, 1866; moved to California in 1869 with her 1861-March 3, 1871); chairman, Committee on Public Lands parents, who settled in San Francisco; graduated from Girls’ (Thirty-eighth through Forty-first Congresses), Committee High School, San Francisco, Calif., 1883; A.B., University on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Thirty- of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1887; elected as a Republican ninth Congress); appointed by President Cleveland surveyor to the Sixty-ninth Congress, by special election, to fill the general of New Mexico and served from July 1885 until vacancy caused by the death of her husband, United States September 1889; returned to Indiana and settled in Representative-elect Julius Kahn, and reelected to the five Irvington; engaged in literary pursuits; died in Irvington, succeeding Congresses (February 17, 1925-January 3, 1937); a suburb of Indianapolis, Ind., July 7, 1899; interment in unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-fifth Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind. Congress in 1936; died on November 16, 1948, in San Fran- Bibliography: Julian, George Washington. Political Recollections, 1840 cisco, Calif.; interment in Home of Peace Cemetery, Colma, to 1872. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg and Co., 1884; Riddleberger, Patrick W. Calif. George Washington Julian, Radical Republican. Indianapolis: Indiana His- torical Bureau, 1966. KAHN, Julius (husband of Florence Prag Kahn), a Rep- resentative from California; born in Kuppenheim, Grand JUNKIN, Benjamin Franklin, a Representative from Duchy of Baden, Germany, February 28, 1861; immigrated Pennsylvania; born near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., to the United States with his parents, who settled in Cali- November 12, 1822; attended private schools and was grad- fornia in 1866; attended the public schools of San Francisco; uated from Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.; studied law; was followed the theatrical profession for ten years; returned admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in to San Francisco in 1890; studied law; member of the State New Bloomfield, Pa.; district attorney for Perry County assembly in 1892; was admitted to the bar in January 1894 1850-1853; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Con- and commenced practice in San Francisco; elected as a Re- gress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); unsuccessful candidate publican to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses for reelection in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress; re- (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903); unsuccessfully contested the sumed the practice of his profession in New Bloomfield; election of Edward J. Livernash to the Fifty-eighth Congress; president judge of the ninth judicial district 1871-1881; solic- elected to the Fifty-ninth and to the nine succeeding Con- itor of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. from 1886 until his gresses and served from March 4, 1905, until his death; death in New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pa., October 9, chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Sixty-sixth 1908; interment in New Bloomfield Cemetery. through Sixty-eighth Congresses); had been reelected to the Sixty-ninth Congress; died in San Francisco, Calif., Decem- JUUL, Niels, a Representative from Illinois; born in ber 18, 1924; interment in the Home of Peace Cemetery, Randers, Denmark, April 27, 1859; attended the Real (Royal) Colma, Calif. School, Randers, Denmark; immigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago, Ill., in 1880; engaged in the pub- KALANIANAOLE, Jonah Kuhio, a Delegate from the lishing business; studied law; was graduated from the law Territory of Hawaii; born in Koloa, island of Kauai, Hawaii, department of Lake Forest University in 1898; was admitted March 26, 1871; attended the Royal School and Punahou to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Chicago, College, Honolulu; studied four years in St. Matthew’s Col- Ill.; member of the State senate 1898-1914; assistant attor- lege, California; was a student at the Royal Agricultural ney of the Sanitary District of Chicago 1907-1911; elected College in England and was graduated from a business col- as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses lege in England; created a prince by royal proclamation in (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for 1884; occupied a position in the Department of the Interior renomination in 1920; appointed by President Harding of the Hawaiian Government; took part in the revolution United States collector of customs for the port of Chicago of the Hawaiians in 1895 and was sentenced to one year’s 1358 Biographical Directory imprisonment; visited Africa during the years 1899-1902 and 1946; graduated from St. Ursula Academy, Toledo, Ohio, fought in the British Army in the Boer War; elected as 1964; B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., 1968; a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the nine succeeding M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1974; at- Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, until his death tended the University of Manchester, Manchester, England, in Waikiki, near Honolulu, Hawaii, on January 7, 1922; 1974; post-graduate studies, Massachusetts Institute of interment in Royal Mausoleum, Nuuanu. Technology, Cambridge, Mass., 1981; urban planner, Toledo- Lucas County, Ohio, Plan Commissions, 1969-1975; director KALBFLEISCH, Martin, a Representative from New of planning, National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs, 1975- York; born in Flushing, Holland, on February 8, 1804; at- 1977; assistant director for urban affairs, domestic policy tended the public schools; studied chemistry; immigrated staff, Executive Office of the President, 1977-1979; elected to the United States and settled in New York City in 1826; as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the ten suc- engaged in the manufacture and sale of paints; health war- ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-present). den in 1832; school trustee in 1836; established a chemical factory at Greenpoint, N.Y., in 1844; supervisor of Bushwick KARCH, Charles Adam, a Representative from Illinois; 1852-1854; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Brooklyn in born on a farm in Engleman Township, St. Clair County, 1854; alderman in Brooklyn 1855-1861; mayor 1862-1864; Ill., March 17, 1875; attended the public schools; was grad- elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March uated from Northern Illinois Normal University (now the 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); delegate to the Union National Con- Illinois State Normal University), at Normal, Ill., in 1894; vention at Philadelphia in 1866; again mayor of Brooklyn taught school 1895-1900; was graduated from the law de- 1867-1871; unsuccessful independent candidate for reelec- partment of Wesleyan College, Bloomington, Ill., in 1898; tion; retired from active pursuits; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice February 12, 1873; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. in Belleville, Ill.; served as secretary

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