Patrick Henry Kelley was a politician from the U.S. state

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 of Michigan

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. He served as U.S. Representative from Michigan's 6th congressional district

Michigan's 6th congressional district

Michigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of southern and eastern Allegan and a portion of western Calhoun counties.-Major...

 from 1915-1923.

Biography

Kelley was born in Silver Creek Township

Silver Creek Township, Michigan

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, Cass County, Michigan

Cass County, Michigan

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, near Dowagiac

Dowagiac, Michigan

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. In 1875, he moved to Berrien County

Berrien County, Michigan

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 with his parents, who settled in Watervliet

Watervliet, Michigan

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. He attended the district and village schools and in 1887 graduated from the Northern Indiana Normal School in Valparaiso

Valparaiso, Indiana

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. He taught school at Fair Plain

Fair Plain, Michigan

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 in Berrien County for several years. He attended the Michigan State Normal School at Ypsilanti

Ypsilanti, Michigan

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 (now Eastern Michigan University

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) and then graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 at Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan

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 in 1900. He was admitted to the bar

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 the same year, commenced practice in Lansing

Lansing, Michigan

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 and was a law partner http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perryman-petersen.html with Seymour H. Person

Seymour H. Person

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Kelley served as a member of the State board of education 1901-1905, as the State superintendent of public instruction 1905-1907, and as the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Michigan

Lieutenant Governor of Michigan

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 1907-1911. In 1912, he was elected as a Republican

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 to the Sixty-third United States Congress as an at-large

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 candidate for an increase in Michigan's Congressional delegation as a result of the 1910 census

United States Census, 1910

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, technically becoming the first to represent the 13th district

Michigan's 13th congressional district

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. He was then re-elected to the four succeeding Congresses from Michigan's 6th congressional district

Michigan's 6th congressional district

Michigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of southern and eastern Allegan and a portion of western Calhoun counties.-Major...

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In 1922, Kelley did not seek renomination, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate

United States Senate

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, losing in the Republican primary to Charles E. Townsend

Charles E. Townsend

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. He resumed the practice of law in Lansing. He died while on a visit to Washington, D.C.

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 and is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing.