John Buell Snyder (July 30, 1877 – February 24, 1946) was a Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

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. J. Buell Snyder was born on a farm in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Pennsylvania. He attended summer sessions of

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, and

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. He graduated from the Lock Haven Teachers College in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. He worked as principal of schools at Stoystown, Rockwood, and

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in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, from 1901 to 1906, and of Perry Township Union High School from 1906 to 1912. He was the western Pennsylvania manager for an educational publisher from 1912 to 1932, and a member of the board of education of Perry Township in Pennsylvania, from 1922 to 1932. He was legislative representative for Pennsylvania school directors during sessions of the

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from 1921 to 1923, and a member of the National Commission of One Hundred for Study and Survey of Rural Schools in the United States from 1922 to 1924. Snyder was elected from the 24th District of Pennsylvania as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in

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, aged 69.

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The Political Graveyard

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* 1877 births 1946 deaths Harvard Summer School alumni Columbia University alumni Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania alumni American school principals People from Somerset County, Pennsylvania School board members in Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub

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