John Thomas Lenahan (November 15, 1852 – April 28, 1920) was a Democratic member of the

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Biography

John T. Lenahan was born in

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. He graduated from Villanova College in 1870. He studied law at the

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. He was admitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in

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. He was a delegate to the

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. Lenahan was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1908. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Wilkes-Barre. Interment in St. Mary's Cemetery.

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1852 births 1920 deaths Pennsylvania lawyers University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni Politicians from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American lawyers 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub