John R. Farr

John R. Farr
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 10th district
In office February 25, 1921 – March 3, 1921
Preceded by	Patrick McLane
Succeeded by	Charles Robert Connell
In office March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1919
Preceded by	Thomas David Nicholls
Succeeded by	Patrick McLane
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
In office 1891 1893 1895 1897 1899
Personal details
Born	(1857-07-18)July 18, 1857 Scranton, Pennsylvania
Died	December 11, 1933(1933-12-11) (aged 76) Scranton, Pennsylvania
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Lafayette College
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John Richard Farr (July 18, 1857 – December 11, 1933) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

John R. Farr was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and attended Scranton's School of the Lackawanna and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He worked as a newsboy, printer, and publisher. He was active in the real estate business.

He served four years on the Scranton School Board. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897, and 1899, serving as speaker of the 1899 session. As a state legislator he introduced bills to make public education compulsory, and to provide free textbooks to public schools; both measures passed.^[1]

Farr was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1908, but was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses. He successfully contested the election of Patrick McLane to the Sixty-sixth Congress, though his success came almost at the end of McLane's term.^[1] He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920, 1930, and 1932.

He resumed the real estate business in Scranton, where he died, aged 76, after suffering a heart attack.^[1] Interred in Shady Lane Cemetery in Chinchilla, Pennsylvania.

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  Campaign material for Farr (year uncertain)
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• Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

• United States Congress. "John R. Farr (id: F000029)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• The Political Graveyard