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Kenna, John Edward

soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born April 10, 1848, in Valcoulon, W. Va. He served in the confederate army during the war of the rebellion. He was prosecuting attorney from 1872 to 1877; and was elected a representative from West Virginia to the forty-fifth, fortysixth, forty-seventh, and forty-eighth congresses. He re- *signed in 1883 to take his seat as a senator of the United States from West Virginia for the term of six years from 1883; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1895. He died Jan. 11, 1893.

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