- Henry Wilson Temple
Henry Wilson Temple (
March 31 ,1864 –January 11 ,1955 ) was a Progressive and a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Temple was born in
Belle Center, Ohio . He graduated fromGeneva College inBeaver Falls, Pennsylvania , in 1883, and from theReformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary inAllegheny, Pennsylvania , in 1887. Before his ordination to the ministry, he worked at Reformed Presbyterian congregations in and aroundMankato, Kansas . After his ordination, he served as the pastor of churches in Jefferson County, Leechburg, andWashington, Pennsylvania . He worked as professor of political science atWashington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, from 1898 to 1913.Temple was elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to succeed himself in 1914. However, he was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
William M. Brown , and was reelected to the Sixty-fifth and to the seven succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932. He worked as professor of international relations in Washington and Jefferson College from 1933 until his retirement in 1947. He died in Washington, Pennsylvania, and is buried inWashington Cemetery .ources
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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/temple.html The Political Graveyard]
* [http://www.rpcna.org/assets/pdf/Glasgow%20book/Glasgow%2015.pdf His biographical sketch in an 1888 church history] , page 704
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