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Samuel Kerns McConnell Jr. (April 6, 1901 – April 11, 1985) was aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Samuel Kerns McConnell Jr. was born inEddystone, Pennsylvania. He graduated from theUniversity of Pennsylvania atPhiladelphia in 1923. He was engaged in the investment banking business in 1926, and was a member of the board of trustees of theNorristown State Hospital, 1939–1944, serving as president, 1940–1944. He served as township commissioner ofLower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, from 1941 to 1944.
McConnell was elected as a Republican to the78th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofJ. William Ditter. He was re-elected to the79th Congress and to the six succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Education and Labor during the83rd Congress. McConnell voted present on theCivil Rights Act of 1957.[1] He resigned on September 1, 1957, to become the executive director ofUnited Cerebral Palsy Associations, Inc., serving until June 1961. He served as vice president and president of Woodcock, Moyer, Fricke and French, Inc. from 1961 to 1967. He died in 1985 inBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania five days after his 84th birthday. He was interred atWest Laurel Hill Cemetery inBala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.[2]
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 17th congressional district 1944–1945 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 16th congressional district 1945–1953 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 13th congressional district 1953–1957 | Succeeded by |
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| Note | * Alternately namedEconomic and Educational Opportunities in 104th Congress andEducation and the Workforce in 105th through 109th and 112th through 115th Congresses. | |
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