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Reyburn, John Edgar

lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 7, 1845, in New Carlisle, Ohio. He was educated by private tutor and at Saunders institute, West Philadelphia; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1870. He was a member of the house of representatives of Pennsylvania, sessions of 1871, 1874, 1875, and 1876; and was elected a member of the senate of Pennsylvania for a term of four years from 1876; and re-elected in 1880. He was elected president pro tempore for the session of 1883; and was re-elected senator in 1884, and again elected in 1888 for a term of four years. He was elected as a republican to fill the unexpired term of Hon. William D. Kelley in the fifty-first congress in 1890, and was elected to the fiftysecond and fifty-third congresses and reelected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.