FARR, JOHN RICHARD, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa., July 18, 1857; attended the public schools, School of the
Lackawanna, Scranton, Pa., and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; was graduated
from Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.; newsboy, printer, and publisher; active in
the real estate business; served four years on the Scranton School Board;
member of the State house of representatives in 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897, and
1899, serving as speaker of the 1899 session; unsuccessful candidate for
election in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3,
1919); successfully contested the election of Patrick McLane to the Sixty-sixth
Congress and served from February 25 to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed the real estate
business in Scranton, Pa.; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination
in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and in 1932 to the Seventy-third
Congress; died in Scranton, Pa., on December 11, 1933; interment in Shady Lane
Cemetery, Chinchilla (near Scranton), Lackawanna County, Pa.
