J. Buell Snyder
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John Buell Snyder was a Democratic Party
Democratic Party (United States)
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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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J. Buell Snyder was born on a farm in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Pennsylvania
Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Pennsylvania
Upper Turkeyfoot Township is a township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,232 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

. He attended summer sessions of Harvard University
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, and Columbia University
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 in New York City
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. He graduated from the Lock Haven Teachers College
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
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 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
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He worked as principal of schools at Stoyestown, Rockwood
Rockwood, Pennsylvania
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, and Berlin
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 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania
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, from 1901 to 1906, and of Perry Township
Perry Township, Pennsylvania
Perry Township is the name of several places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:*Perry Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania*Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania*Perry Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania...

 Union High School from 1906 to 1912.

He was the western Pennsylvania manager for an educational publisher from 1912 to 1932, and a member of the board of education of Perry Township, Pennsylvania
Perry Township, Pennsylvania
Perry Township is the name of several places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:*Perry Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania*Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania*Perry Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania...

, from 1922 to 1932. He was legislative representative for Pennsylvania school directors during sessions of the Pennsylvania General Assembly
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 from 1921 to 1923, and a member of the National Commission of One Hundred for Study and Survey of Rural Schools in the United States from 1922 to 1924.

Snyder was elected from the 24th District of Pennsylvania as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Pittsburgh, aged 69.

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