Everett Kent (November 15, 1888 – October 13, 1963) was an American lawyer and Democratic member of the

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Early life and career

Everett Kent was born in

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in the

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region of the state. He attended the public schools in Lansford, East Bangor, Nazareth, and Bangor. He was engaged as a machinist and as a newspaper reporter, taught school, and worked as the principal of Roosevelt School in

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. He graduated from the law department of the

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in 1911 and was admitted to the bar the same year. He commenced practice in Bangor and served as counsel for several municipalities and for the board of prison inspectors of

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from 1912 to 1915. He served as the solicitor of Northampton County from 1920 to 1923.

Political career

Kent was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924. He was again elected to the Seventieth, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928. He was a delegate to the

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s in 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956. He served as solicitor for the county controller of Northampton County from 1933 to 1943.

Later career and death

He resumed the practice of his profession in Bangor, and died in

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at age 74. He was interred in St. John's Cemetery in

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