district predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party profession term_end birth_date alt term_start image article_title state name restingplace
1st william johnson stone charles k. wheeler 20 june 1921 caswell county , north carolina paducah , kentucky democrat lawyer march 3 , 1897 10 october 1849 a wiry mustache and goatee wearing a white shirt and black man jacket with dark hair and a dark , march 4 , 1895 john-hendrick . jpg john kerr hendrick
 kentucky john kerr hendrick maplelawn cemetery
john kerr hendrick

john kerr hendrick -lrb- october 10 , 1849 -- june 20 , 1921 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from kentucky .
born in caswell county , north carolina , hendrick moved with his parents to logan county and later to todd county , kentucky , attended private schools and bethel college , russellville , kentucky , moved to crittenden county , kentucky , in 1869 and engaged in teaching school .
he studied law .
he was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in smithland , kentucky .
he served as prosecuting attorney of livingston county from 1878 to 1886 .
he served as member of the state senate from 1887 to 1891 .
he served as delegate to the democratic national convention in 1888 .
hendrick was elected as a democrat to the fifty-fourth congress -lrb- march 4 , 1895 -- march 3 , 1897 -rrb- .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896 .
he resumed the practice of law in paducah , kentucky , where he died june 20 , 1921 .
he was interred in maplelawn cemetery .
