Judson Lincoln Newhall (March 26, 1870 – July 23, 1952) was a

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from

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, businessman and school musical director. Born in Hunterstown, Quebec,

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, Newhall moved to

Covington, Kentucky Covington is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States, located at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking Rivers. Cincinnati, Ohio, lies to its immediate north across the Ohio and Newport, to its east across the Licking ...

, with his parents in 1874. There, he attended public school and graduated from Martin's Academy in 1886.

Career

Newhall attended the law department of

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between 1896 and 1898, along with special academic courses at the

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from 1924 to 1926. He was employed in the

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as a storekeeper-gauger from 1899 until he resigned in 1905, to engage in

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al work. Newhall served as director of music in the Covington public schools from 1913 to 1917. This was interrupted by the

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, while he served as a

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in the

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welfare service. After the war, he resumed his position with the Covington schools. Newhall was elected as a

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to the 71st Congress (serving between March 4, 1929, and March 3, 1931). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1934 to the 74th Congress. Instead, he worked in the oil and gasoline business. Newhall died in Park Hills, Covington, on July 23, 1952, and was interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery,

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. At the time of his death, he was aged 82.

References

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