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Index: US - WV - Cabell - John Lewis Conner

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Biographies of Cabell County, WV

Biographical Sketches of Members of Congress, Members of the Legislature, 
Officers of the State Governement and judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, 
West Virigina, 1917

Source:
West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1917,
Compiled and Edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate, 
The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston, West Va.
pgs. 719 - 770

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

pg. 733

Members of the House of Delegates.

CONNER, JOHN LEWIS.   (Democrat.) Address:
Huntington, West Va. One of the members of the House
from Cabell county. Born in Milton; educated in the com-
mon and high schools and Marshall College; conductor on
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and Chairman and Gen-
eral Secretary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen on
the Chesapeake & Ohio system; served as delegate to the
Grand Lodge of that brotherhood at San Francisco in 1913,
and at Detroit in 1916; in the legislative sessions of 1917
had committee assignments as follows: Railroads, Medi-
cine and Sanitation, Prohibition and Temperance, Arts,
Science and General Improvements, Claims and Grievances.
the Clerk's.ffice [sic], Forestry and Conservation, Virginia Debt.


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