John W. Langley

John W. Langley

John Wesley Langley (January 14, 1868 - January 17, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, husband of Katherine Gudger Langley.

Born in Floyd County, Kentucky, Langley attended the common schools.He taught school for three years.He attended the law department of the National, Georgetown, and Columbian (now George Washington) Universities in Washington, D.C., for an aggregate period of eight years. Examiner in the Pension Office and a member of the Board of Pension Appeals. Law clerk in the General Land Office. Disbursing and appointment clerk of the Census Office 1899-1907.He served in the State house of representatives 1886-1890.

Langley was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until January 11, 1926, when he resigned.He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses).He resumed the practice of law in Pikeville, Kentucky, where he died on January 17, 1932.He was interred in the Langley Cemetery at Middle Creek, Kentucky.

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