John Alexander Key was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Ohio

Ohio

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Born in Marion, Ohio

Marion, Ohio

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, Key attended the public schools.
Learned the printer's trade.
City letter carrier 1897-1903.
Recorder of Marion County 1903-1908.
Secretary to Representative Carl C. Anderson

Carl C. Anderson

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, of Ohio from 1908 to 1912.

Key was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Sixty-third

63rd United States Congress

- House of Representatives:*Democratic : 291 *Republican : 134*Progressive : 9*Independent : 1TOTAL members: 435-Senate:*President of the Senate: Thomas R. Marshall*President pro tempore: James P. Clarke-Senate:...

, Sixty-fourth

64th United States Congress

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, and Sixty-fifth

65th United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Pensions (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth

66th United States Congress

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 Congress.
He engaged in the petroleum industry

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He served as inspector of Federal prisons from 1934 until his retirement in 1941.
He died in Marion, Ohio

Marion, Ohio

Marion is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Marion County. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio, approximately north of Columbus....

, March 4, 1954.
He was interred in Marion Cemetery.

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