Preceded by Carl C. Anderson Resting place Marion Cemetery Succeeded by R. Clint Cole | Preceded by Frank B. Willis Succeeded by Arthur W. Overmyer Name John Key | |
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Born December 30, 1871
Marion, Ohio ( 1871-12-30 ) Died March 4, 1954(1954-03-04) (aged 82)
Marion, Ohio | ||
John Alexander Key (December 30, 1871 – March 4, 1954) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born in Marion, Ohio, Key attended the public schools. Learned the printer's trade. City letter carrier 1897-1903. Recorder of Marion County 1903-1908. Secretary to Representative Carl C. Anderson, of Ohio from 1908 to 1912.
Key was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1919). He served as chairman of the Committee on Pensions (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress. He engaged in the petroleum industry. He served as inspector of Federal prisons from 1934 until his retirement in 1941. He died in Marion, Ohio, March 4, 1954. He was interred in Marion Cemetery.