Theron Akin was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from New York

New York

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Born in Johnstown, New York

Johnstown (city), New York

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, Akin attended the common schools of Amsterdam, New York, and also was privately tutored at home.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He was graduated from the New York Dental College and practiced for twelve years in Amsterdam, New York.
He moved to Akin (later Fort Johnson), New York, and engaged in agricultural pursuits in Montgomery County.
He served as president of the village of Fort Johnson, New York

Fort Johnson, New York

Fort Johnson, formerly known as Akin, is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 491 at the 2000 census.The Village of Fort Johnson is in the south part of the town of Amsterdam, west of the city of Amsterdam....

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Akin was elected as a Progressive Republican to the Sixty-first Congress (March 4, 1910-March 3, 1912).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination on the Progressive ticket in 1912.
He resumed agricultural pursuits.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Sixty-fourth

64th United States Congress

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 Congress on the Progressive ticket in 1914.
He served as mayor of Amsterdam, New York from 1920 to 1924.
He resumed his former pursuits.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican and Democratic mayoralty nomination in 1927.
He died in Amsterdam, New York, March 26, 1933.
He was interred in Pine Grove Cemetery, Tribes Hill, New York

Tribes Hill, New York

Tribes Hill is a census-designated place located in the Towns of Mohawk and Amsterdam in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 1,024 at the 2000 census...

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