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Houston, John M
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005
www.ancestry.com
a
Representative from Kansas; born on a farm near Formosa, Jewell County,
Kans., September 15, 1890; attended the public schools of Wichita,
Kans., St. John's Military School, Salina, Kans., and Fair-mount
University, Wichita, Kans.; engaged in the theatrical business
1912-1917; during the First World War served as a noncommissioned
officer in the United States Marine Corps 1917-1919; engaged in the
retail lumber business at Newton, Kans., 1919-1934; mayor of Newton
1927-1931; secretary of the Democratic State central committee in 1934
and 1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-Janu-ary 3, 1943); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress;
appointed a member of the National Labor Relations Board on March 15,
1943, and served until his retirement on August 27, 1953; resided in
Laguna Beach, Calif., where he died April 29, 1975; interment in Melrose
Abbey Cemetery, Anaheim, Calif.
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