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Jonathan Nicholas Langham (August 4, 1861 – May 21, 1945) was a
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member of the
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from
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Biography

Langham was born near
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. He taught school, and graduated from the State Normal School at
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, in 1882. He studied law, was admitted to the
Indiana County, Pennsylvania Indiana County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in the west central part of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 83,246. Its county seat is Indiana. Indiana County comprises the Indiana, PA Mic ...
bar in December 1888 and commenced practice in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He served as postmaster of Indiana, Pennsylvania, from 1892 to 1893, as assistant United States attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania from 1898 to 1904, and as chief clerk and corporation deputy in the auditor general’s department of Pennsylvania from 1904 to 1909. Langham was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first, Sixty-Second, and Sixty-third Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914. In 1915 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas for the fortieth judicial district of Pennsylvania for a term of ten years, reelected in 1925 and served until his retirement in January 1936. He died in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1945. Interment in Oakland Cemetery.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Langham, J.N. 1861 births 1945 deaths Judges of the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas People from Indiana, Pennsylvania Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania