- J. Buell Snyder
John Buell Snyder (
July 30 1877 –February 24 1946 ) was a Democratic Party member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .J. Buell Snyder was born on a farm in
Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Pennsylvania . He attended summer sessions ofHarvard University , andColumbia University inNew York City . He graduated from the Lock Haven Teachers College inLock Haven, Pennsylvania .He worked as principal of schools at Stoyestown, Rockwood, and Berlin 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, Pennsylvania , from 1922 to 1932. He was legislative representative for Pennsylvania school directors during sessions of thePennsylvania General Assembly 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 as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4 1933 , until his death inPittsburgh , aged 69.ources
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