Jonathan Nicholas Langham (August 4, 1861 – May 21, 1945) was a
Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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.
Biography
Langham was born near
Hillsdale, Pennsylvania
Hillsdale is an unincorporated community in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located on Pennsylvania Route 286, northeast of Indiana. Hillsdale has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer ...
. He taught school, and graduated from the
State Normal School at
Indiana, Pennsylvania
Indiana is a borough in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. The population was 14,044 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Indiana, Pennsylvania micropolitan area, about northeast of Pittsburgh. ...
, in 1882. He studied law, was admitted to the
Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Indiana County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in the west central part of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 83,246. Its county seat is Indiana. Indiana County comprises the Indiana, PA Mi ...
bar in December 1888 and commenced practice in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He served as postmaster of Indiana, Pennsylvania, from 1892 to 1893, as assistant United States attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania from 1898 to 1904, and as chief clerk and corporation deputy in the auditor general’s department of Pennsylvania from 1904 to 1909.
Langham was elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-first,
Sixty-Second, and
Sixty-third Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914. In 1915 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas for the fortieth judicial district of Pennsylvania for a term of ten years, reelected in 1925 and served until his retirement in January 1936. He died in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1945. Interment in Oakland Cemetery.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
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1861 births
1945 deaths
Judges of the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas
People from Indiana, Pennsylvania
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives