John B. Kendrick

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John B. Kendrick (September 6, 1857 – November 3, 1933) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Wyoming.

Kendrick was born near Rusk, Texas, attended the public schools, and moved to Wyoming in 1879 and settled on a ranch near Sheridan, where he raised cattle and sheep.

He was a member of the State senate from 1910 to 1914 and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1913. He then served as Governor of Wyoming from 1915 until he resigned in 1917, having been elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1916. Kendrick was reelected to the Senate in 1922 and 1928 and served from March 4, 1917, until his death at Sheridan, Wyoming in 1933. He had served as chairman of the Committee on Canadian Relations (Sixty-fifth Congress) and member of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventy-third Congress). He is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Governors of Wyoming
Warren • Barber • Osborne • W. Richards • D. Richards • Chatterton • Brooks • J. Carey • Kendrick • Houx • R. Carey • W. Ross • Lucas • N. Ross • Emerson • Clark • Miller • Smith • Hunt • Crane • Barrett • Rogers • Simpson • Hickey • Gage • Hansen • Hathaway • Herschler • Sullivan • Geringer • Freudenthal

Preceded by Joseph M. Carey	Governor of Wyoming 1915—1917	Succeeded by Frank L. Houx
Preceded by Clarence D. Clark	U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Wyoming 1917—1933	Succeeded by Joseph C. O'Mahoney