Please answer the following question: Facts: - profession: lawyer - death place: pikeville , kentucky - alt: a black jacket and vest , patterned tie , and white man shirt with thin , black hair wearing a - successor: andrew jackson kirk - restingplace: langley cemetery - death date: 17 january 1932 - predecessor: francis a. hopkins - party: republican - spouse: katherine g. langley - district: 10th - term end: january 11 , 1926 - term start: march 4 , 1907 - state: kentucky - name: john w. langley - birth date: 14 january 1868 - image: john langley - harris ewing cropped.jpg - birth place: floyd county , kentucky Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john w. langley .
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john wesley langley -lrb- january 14 , 1868 - january 17 , 1932 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from kentucky , husband of katherine gudger langley .born in floyd county , kentucky , langley attended the common schools and then taught school for three years .he attended the law department of the national , georgetown , and columbian -lrb- now george washington -rrb- universities in washington , d.c. , for an aggregate period of eight years .he was examiner in the pension office and a member of the board of pension appeals , law clerk in the general land office , and from 1899 to 1907 , he was disbursing and appointment clerk of the census office .he served in the state house of representatives from 1886 to 1890 .-lrb- last call - the rise and fall of prohibition by daniel okrent .pg 275 . -rrb-langley was elected in march 4 , 1907 as a republican to the sixtieth and to the nine succeeding congresses where he became known as '' pork barrel john . ''he served as chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds -lrb- sixty-sixth through sixty-eighth congresses -rrb- .he resigned in january 11 , 1926 , after being convicted of illegally selling alcohol .langley had deposited $ 115,000 in his bank account over a three-year period despite earning only $ 7,500 a year as a congressman .he had arranged for '' medicinal '' alcohol to be released to new york-based bootleggers during prohibition .he also tried to bribe a prohibition officer .his wife katherine , then ran for his seat and won in the next election , loudly declaring that her husband had been the victim of a conspiracy .she also won the next election as well .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 .