# Everett Kent

Everett Kent (November 15, 1888 – October 13, 1963) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He served two nonconsecutive terms in Congress during the 1920s.

## Early life and career

Everett Kent was born in East Bangor, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. He attended the public schools in Lansford, East Bangor, Nazareth, and Bangor. He was engaged as a machinist and as a newspaper reporter, taught school, and worked as the principal of Roosevelt School in Bangor, Pennsylvania.

### Legal and early political career

He graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1911 and was admitted to the bar the same year. He commenced practice in Bangor and served as counsel for several municipalities and for the board of prison inspectors of Northampton County, Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1915. He served as the solicitor of Northampton County from 1920 to 1923.

## Congress and later political activities

Kent was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924. He was again elected to the Seventieth, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928. In the elections of 1924, 1926 and 1928, his opponent all three times was William R. Coyle.
He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956. He served as solicitor for the county controller of Northampton County from 1933 to 1943.

## Later career and death

He resumed the practice of his profession in Bangor, and died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at age 74. He was interred in St. John's Cemetery in Bangor, Pennsylvania.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Everett Kent (id: K000124)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
* Everett Kent at The Political Graveyard
U.S. House of Representatives :
| Preceded byM. Clyde Kelly | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 30th congressional district 1923–1925 | Succeeded byWilliam R. Coyle |
| Preceded byWilliam R. Coyle | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 30th congressional district 1927–1929 | Succeeded byWilliam R. Coyle |
vtePennsylvania's delegation(s) to the 68th & 70th United States Congresses (ordered by seniority) :
68th
Senate:
▌G. Pepper (R)
▌D. Reed (R)
House:
▌T. Butler (R)
▌W. Griest (R)
▌S. Porter (R)
▌W. Vare (R)
▌G. Edmonds (R)
▌G. Graham (R)
▌E. Kiess (R)
▌J. Morin (R)
▌H. Temple (R)
▌G. Darrow (R)
▌L. McFadden (R)
▌H. Watson (R)
▌M. C. Kelly (R)
▌G. Campbell (R)
▌N. Strong (R)
▌J. Casey (D)
▌M. Shreve (R)
▌S. Kendall (R)
▌H. Ransley (R)
▌H. Bixler (R)
▌J. Connolly (R)
▌A. Wyant (R)
▌E. Beers (R)
▌G. Brumm (R)
▌W. Croll (D)
▌H. Cummings (D)
▌S. Glatfelter (D)
▌E. Kent (D)
▌J. Kurtz (R)
▌J. Magee (R)
▌T. Phillips Jr. (R)
▌F. Sites (D)
▌W. Swoope (R)
▌L. Watres (R)
▌G. Welsh (R)
▌G. Wertz (R)
70th
Senate:
▌D. Reed (R)
▌W. Vare (R)
House:
▌T. Butler (R)
▌W. Griest (R)
▌S. Porter (R)
▌G. Graham (R)
▌E. Kiess (R)
▌J. Morin (R)
▌H. Temple (R)
▌G. Darrow (R)
▌L. McFadden (R)
▌H. Watson (R)
▌M. C. Kelly (R)
▌G. Campbell (R)
▌N. Strong (R)
▌M. Shreve (R)
▌S. Kendall (R)
▌H. Ransley (R)
▌J. Casey (D)
▌J. Connolly (R)
▌A. Wyant (R)
▌E. Beers (R)
▌J. Kurtz (R)
▌L. Watres (R)
▌G. Welsh (R)
▌B. Golder (R)
▌F. Magrady (R)
▌F. Menges (R)
▌E. Kent (D)
▌B. Bushong (R)
▌J. Chase (R)
▌T. Cochran (R)
▌I. Doutrich (R)
▌H. Estep (R)
▌J. Hazlett (R)
▌J. Leech (R)
▌C. Palmer (R)
▌J. H. Swick (R)
▌J. Beck (R)
▌J. Wolfenden (R) :