13 Facts About Everett Kent

Everett Kent was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Everett Kent served two nonconsecutive terms in Congress during the 1920s.

Everett Kent was born in East Bangor, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state.

Everett Kent attended the public schools in Lansford, East Bangor, Nazareth, and Bangor.

Everett Kent was engaged as a machinist and as a newspaper reporter, taught school, and worked as the principal of Roosevelt School in Bangor, Pennsylvania.

Everett Kent graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1911 and was admitted to the bar the same year.

Everett Kent commenced practice in Bangor and served as counsel for several municipalities and for the board of prison inspectors of Northampton County, Pennsylvania from 1912 to 1915.

Everett Kent served as the solicitor of Northampton County from 1920 to 1923.

Everett Kent was again elected to the Seventieth, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928.

Everett Kent was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1936,1940,1944,1948,1952, and 1956.

Everett Kent served as solicitor for the county controller of Northampton County from 1933 to 1943.

Everett Kent resumed the practice of his profession in Bangor, and died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at age 74.

Everett Kent was interred in St John's Cemetery in Bangor, Pennsylvania.