Henry Wilson Temple
U.S. Congressperson
1864 – 1955
Who was Henry Wilson Temple?
Henry Wilson Temple was a Progressive and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Temple was born in Belle Center, Ohio. He graduated from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1883, and from the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1887. Before his ordination to the ministry, he worked at Reformed Presbyterian congregations in and around Mankato, Kansas. After his ordination, he served as the pastor of churches in Jefferson County, Leechburg, and Washington, Pennsylvania. He worked as professor of political science at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, from 1898 to 1913.
Temple was elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to succeed himself in 1914. However, he was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Brown, and was reelected to the Sixty-fifth and to the seven succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932.
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- Born
- Mar 31, 1864
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Geneva College
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
- Died
- Jan 11, 1955
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on July 23, 2013
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