Representative Josiah Kent View All Years

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Date of Death: 6/22/1880
Birth Place: York County, Pennsylvania
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: 1 (1846)
Home County: Lee
Josiah Kent
Lee County
Born March 30, 1805, York County, Pennsylvania, and died June 22, 1880 in Lee County, Iowa. He was a botanist, farmer and mechanic. Mr. Kent married Anna Maria Rothrock, October 16, 1834, in Pennsylvania. They removed to Lee County, Iowa in 1840. Mr. Kent was a delegate to the 1846 Constitutional Convention, and represented Lee County in the First Iowa General Assembly in the House of Representatives.
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