Everett Kent (November 15, 1888 – October 13, 1963) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the

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. He served two nonconsecutive terms in Congress during the 1920s.

Early life and career

Everett Kent was born in East Bangor, Pennsylvania in the

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region of the state. He attended the public schools in Lansford, East Bangor, Nazareth, and Bangor. He was engaged as a machinist and as a newspaper reporter, taught school, and worked as the principal of Roosevelt School in

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Legal and early political career

He graduated from the law department of the

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in 1911 and was admitted to the bar the same year. He commenced practice in Bangor and served as counsel for several municipalities and for the board of prison inspectors of

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from 1912 to 1915. He served as the solicitor of Northampton County from 1920 to 1923.

Congress and later political activities

Kent was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924. He was again elected to the Seventieth, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928. In the elections of 1924, 1926 and 1928, his opponent all three times was William R. Coyle. He was a delegate to the

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s in 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956. He served as solicitor for the county controller of Northampton County from 1933 to 1943.

Later career and death

He resumed the practice of his profession in Bangor, and died in

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at age 74. He was interred in St. John's Cemetery in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kent, Everett 1888 births 1963 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Politicians from Northampton County, Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives