Kean, John, 1852-1914

LC control no.	n 86111138
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kean, John, 1852-1914 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Kean, Mr. (John), 1852-1914
Birth date	1852-12-04
Death date	1914-11-04
Affiliation	United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Profession or occupation	Legislators Lawyers
Found in	NUCMC data from N.J. Hist. Soc. for Telepost Co. Bill coll., 1910 (John Kean) WWWA, 1897-1942 (Kean, John, senator; b. Ursino, N.J., 1852; s. John and Lucy K.; student Yale, class of '76; U.S. senator 1899-1905, 1905-1911; home: Ursino, nr. Elizabeth, N.J.; d. 1914) American National Institute, Paris, France, 1904: p. 1 (Mr. Kean, from the Committee on Foreign Relations) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed February 28, 2022 (Kean, John, (brother of Hamilton Fish Kean, great-grandson of John Kean, uncle of Robert Winthrop Kean), a Representative and a Senator from New Jersey; born at 'Ursino,' near Elizabeth, N.J., December 4, 1852; studied in private schools and attended Yale College; graduated from the Columbia Law School, New York City, in 1875; admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1877, but did not engage in extensive practice; engaged in banking and interested in manufacturing; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884; elected to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1892; member of the committee to revise the judiciary system of New Jersey; elected to the United States Senate in 1899; reelected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1911; chairman, Committee on the Geological Survey (Fifty-seventh Congress), Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses); engaged in banking in Elizabeth, N.J.; died in Ursino, N.J., on November 4, 1914; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Elizabeth, N.J.)
Associated language	eng