Aaron Shenk Kreider
| Aaron Shenk Kreider | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 18th district |
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In office March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1923 |
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| Preceded by | Marlin E. Olmsted |
| Succeeded by | Edward M. Beers |
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June 26, 1863 South Annville Township, Pennsylvania |
| Died | May 19, 1929 (aged 65) Annville, Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Lebanon Valley College |
Aaron Shenk Kreider (June 26, 1863 – May 19, 1929) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Aaron S. Kreider was born on a farm in South Annville Township, Pennsylvania. He attended Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Allentown Business College in 1880.
He moved to Fulton, Missouri, in 1880 and engaged in agricultural pursuits and later was employed as a clerk in a store. He returned to Pennsylvania and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Campbelltown, Pennsylvania, in 1884 and in Roseland, Pennsylvania, in 1885. He established the town of Lawn, in Lebanon County, in 1886. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the grain and coal business. He moved to Palmyra, Pennsylvania, in 1893 and shortly thereafter to Annville. He became interested in shoe manufacturing and in banking.
Kreider served as commissioner and chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Annville from 1909 to 1912. He was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1910. He served as president of the National Association of Shoe Manufacturers of the United States from 1913 to 1916.
Kreider was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior during the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922. After his time in Congress, he served as president of the board of trustees of Lebanon Valley College in Annville. He resumed his former manufacturing pursuits until his death in Annville. Interment in Mount Annville Cemetery.
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