1. Theron Akin was an American politician who served one term as a US Representative from New York from 1911 to 1913.
12 Facts About Theron Akin
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Theron Akin engaged in agricultural pursuits, and graduated from the New York Dental College and practiced for twelve years in Amsterdam, New York.
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Theron Akin married Carrie Bell on September 24,1874, and they had two children, Harry and Florence.
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Theron Akin married Mary Sanford on December 16,1880, and they had one child, David.
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Theron Akin moved to Theron Akin, New York, and engaged in agricultural pursuits in Montgomery County.
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Theron Akin served as president of the village of Fort Johnson, New York.
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Theron Akin was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination on the Progressive ticket in 1912 and resumed agricultural pursuits.
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Theron Akin was again an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Sixty-fourth Congress on the Progressive ticket in 1914.
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Theron Akin served as Mayor of Amsterdam, New York, from 1920 to 1924.
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Theron Akin resumed his former pursuits, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican and Democratic mayoralty nomination in 1927.
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Theron Akin died, from a stroke of paralysis, in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York, on March 26,1933.
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Theron Akin is interred at Pine Grove Cemetery, Tribes Hill, New York.