John B. Kendrick

Infobox Governor
name = John B. Kendrick


order = 9th
office = Governor of Wyoming
term_start = 1915
term_end = 1917
lieutenant =
predecessor = Joseph M. Carey
successor = Frank L. Houx
birth_date = September 6, 1857
birth_place = Rusk, Texas
death_date = November 3, 1933
death_place =
party = Democratic
spouse =
profession =
religion =

John B. Kendrick (September 6, 1857ndash November 3, 1933) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Wyoming.

Kendrick was born near Rusk, Texas, where he attended the public schools, and then moved to Wyoming in 1879 and settled on a ranch near Sheridan, where he raised cattle.

He was a member of the State senate from 1910 to 1914 and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1913. He then served as Governor of Wyoming from 1915 until he resigned in 1917, having been elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1916. Kendrick was reelected to the Senate in 1922 and 1928 and served from March 4, 1917, until his death at Sheridan, Wyoming, in 1933. He had served as chairman of the Committee on Canadian Relations (Sixty-fifth Congress) and member of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventy-third Congress). He is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in Sheridan, Wyoming.

External links

[http://www.trailend.org Trail End State Historic Site (Kendrick Mansion)]

Further reading

Georgen, Cynde A. "One cowboy's dream: John B. Kendrick, his family, home, and ranching empire." 2nd edition, revised. Virginia Beach, Virginia: The Donning Company Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-57864-239-6

Trivia

The following children's book, classified as "historic fiction", is loosely based on the life of John B. Kendrick:
Garst, Shannon and Warren Garst. "Cowboys and Cattle Trails." The American Adventure Series. Edited by Emmett A. Betts. Chicago: Wheeler Publishing Company, 1948.