John Joseph Kindred (July 15, 1864 – October 23, 1937) was an American physician and politician. Kindred served five terms as

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from

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from 1911 to 1913, and from 1921 to 1929, before returning to the practice of medicine. As a physician, his focus was on mental diseases, and he established mental hospitals in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Medical career

Born near

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, Kindred attended the local schools, Randolph-Macon College,

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, and the

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. He taught school in Virginia in 1886 and 1887. His boyhood home at Courtland is known as Mahone's Tavern. He graduated from the Hospital College of Medicine,

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, in 1889 and commenced the practice of his profession in

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the same year. He graduated in mental diseases from the

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, Scotland, in 1892. He established several

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s in

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, and

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Legal career

He graduated in law in 1919 and was

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in 1926.

Political career

Kindred was elected as a

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to the Sixty-second Congress (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1913). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1912. He became interested in agricultural pursuits and in the construction of houses. Kindred was elected to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1929). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1928.

Educational career

He resumed his medical profession in

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1930-1937 and also served as professor of medical jurisprudence at John B.

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, 1933 to 1937.

Death

He died on October 23, 1937, at

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, and was interred in

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References

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