Biography

05/10/1856 - 09/19/1918


KEARNS, John, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, May 10, 1856 in Belfast, Ireland; iron and steel worker; elected, council, Pittsburgh (1885-1890); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1890, 1892, 1894; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1896); died, September 19, 1918 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery, Lawrenceville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.


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