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Kenney, Richard R

lawyer, United States senator, was born Sept. 9, 1856, in Sussex county, Del. He was elected state librarian in 1879, and held that office for two terms. He was appointed adjutantgeneral of Delaware in 1887, and retired from that office at the end of his term in. 1891. He was delegate to the national democratic convention at Chicago in 1892; was made a member of the democratic national committee in 1896, which position he still holds. He was elected to the United States senate as a democrat in 1897, to fill a vacancy.

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