J. Buell Snyder

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John Buell Snyder (July 30, 1877 –February 24, 1946) was a Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

J. Buell Snyder was born on a farm in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Pennsylvania. He attended summer sessions of Harvard University, and Columbia University in New York City. He graduated from the Lock Haven Teachers College in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.

He worked as principal of schools at Stoyestown, Rockwood, and Berlin in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, from 1901 to 1906, and of Perry Township Union High School from 1906 to 1912.

He was the western Pennsylvania manager for an educational publisher from 1912 to 1932, and a member of the board of education of Perry Township, Pennsylvania, from 1922 to 1932. He was legislative representative for Pennsylvania school directors during sessions of the Pennsylvania State Legislature from 1921 to 1923, and a member of the National Commission of One Hundred for Study and Survey of Rural Schools in the United States from 1922 to 1924.

Snyder was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Pittsburgh, aged 69.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Samuel A. Kendall	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district 1933–1945	Succeeded by Thomas E. Morgan
Preceded by James E. Van Zandt	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district 1945–1946	Succeeded by William J. Crow