Jonathan Nicholas Langham (
August 4,
1861 –
May 21,
1945) was a
U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania
.
J. N. Langham was born near
Hillsdale, Pennsylvania.
He taught
school, and graduated from the State Normal
School
at Indiana, Pennsylvania
, in 1882. He studied law, was admitted to the
Indiana County,
Pennsylvania
bar in December 1888 and commenced practice in
Indiana, Pennsylvania. He served as postmaster of Indiana,
Pennsylvania, from 1892 to 1893, as assistant United States
attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania from 1898 to
1904, and as chief clerk and corporation deputy in the auditor
general’s department of Pennsylvania from 1904 to 1909.
Langham was elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-first,
Sixty-Second, and
Sixty-third Congresses. He was
not a candidate for renomination in 1914. In 1915 he was elected
judge of the court of common pleas for the fortieth judicial
district of Pennsylvania for a term of ten years, reelected in 1925
and served until his retirement in January 1936. He died in
Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1945. Interment in Oakland
Cemetery.
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